Elementary Software Diagnostics Patterns

These are patterns of abnormal software behavior that affect software users and trigger the application of pattern-oriented software diagnostics and debugging if necessary. The initial list of relevant elementary patterns includes:

•    Functional

✓ Use-case Deviation

•    Non-functional

✓ Crash

✓ Hang (includes delays)

✓ Counter Value (includes resource leaks, CPU spikes)

✓ Error Message

In choosing the pattern vocabulary we decided to use ordinary names, for example, Hang was chosen instead of Response Delay.