AuthorsM. A. Naqvi, S. Malik, M. Astekin and L. Moonen
TitleOn Evaluating Self-Adaptive and Self-Healing Systems using Chaos Engineering
AfilliationSoftware Engineering
Project(s)Data-Driven Software Engineering Department
StatusPublished
Publication TypeTechnical reports
Year of Publication2022
NumberarXiv:2208.13227
Pagination1-10
PublisherarXiv
KeywordsChaos Engineering, Evaluation, Exploratory study, Resilience, Self-Healing
Abstract

With the growing adoption of self-adaptive systems in various domains, there is an increasing need for strategies to assess their correct behavior. In particular self-healing systems, which aim to provide resilience and fault-tolerance, often deal with unanticipated failures in critical and highly dynamic environments. Their reactive and complex behavior makes it challenging to assess if these systems execute according to the desired goals. Recently, several studies have expressed concern about the lack of systematic evaluation methods for self-healing behavior.

In this paper, we propose CHESS, an approach for the systematic evaluation of self-adaptive and self-healing systems that builds on chaos engineering. Chaos engineering is a methodology for subjecting a system to unexpected conditions and scenarios. It has shown great promise in helping developers build resilient microservice architectures and cyber-physical systems. CHESS turns this idea around by using chaos engineering to evaluate how well a self-healing system can withstand such perturbations. We investigate the viability of this approach through an exploratory study on a self-healing smart office environment. The study helps us explore the promises and limitations of the approach, as well as identify directions where additional work is needed. We conclude with a summary of lessons learned.

URLhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13227
DOI10.48550/arXiv.2208.13227
TR-NumberarXiv:2208.13227
Citation Keynaqvi2022:evaluating:arxiv

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