Logging Practices in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study

Background: Logging practices provide the ability to record valuable runtime information of software systems support operations tasks such as service monitoring and troubleshooting. However, current logging face common challenges. On one hand, although importance has been broadly recognized, most them are still conducted in an arbitrary or ad-hoc manner, ending up with questionable inadequate perform these tasks. other considerable research effort carried out on practices, however, few proposed techniques methods have widely adopted industry. xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Objective: This study aims establish a comprehensive understanding state focus unveiling possible problems gaps which further shed light potential future directions. xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Method: We systematic mapping 56 primary studies. xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Results: provides holistic report existing by systematically synthesizing analyzing inter-relationship terms issues, topics solution approaches. Using xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3W1H — xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Why log , xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Where xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">What xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">How well is logging —as categorization standard, we find that: (1) best known issues repeatedly investigated; (2) often studied separately without considering their intricate relationships; (3) xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Where What questions attracted majority attention while little made xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Why xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">How well questions; (4) relationships between topics, approaches regarding appear many-to-many, indicates lack profound practice how they should be appropriately tackled. xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Conclusions: need advance practices. For example, more invested xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">why set anchor xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">how close loop. In addition, process perspective taken into account both adoption related