Runtime Monitoring and Auditing of Self-Adaptive Systems (S)

Self-Adaptive Systems are target of frequent research regarding different aspects. However, they still present several challenges related to assurance, dependability, verification, and validation. Adaptations can be related to a set of concerns (i.e., why, what, when, where, who, and how), which are evaluated during, operation and post operation phases. We propose the application of configuration management techniques to provide means for monitoring and auditing Self-Adaptive Systems. We introduce a tool named CM@RT that registers how the system architecture configuration evolves over time and provides different visualizations to track such evolution. For evaluating our approach, some Self-Adaptive Systems scenarios were tackled with the help of CM@RT. The results show that our approach is capable of providing means to perform monitoring and auditing with valuable benefits to the selected Self-Adaptive