Log Severity Levels Matter: A multivocal mapping [Database]

DOI: 10.1109/QRS54544.2021.00109

• Paper

• If you use the datasets in your research for publication, please kindly cite the following paper:

  • E. Mendes and F. Petrillo, "Log severity levels matter: A multivocal mapping," 2021 IEEE 21st International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS), 2021, pp. 1002-1013, doi: 10.1109/QRS54544.2021.00109.

Peer-reviewed literature

Bibtex of the library

Search String:

("log level" OR "log severity" 
 OR 
"logging level" OR "logging severity"
OR 
("severity level" AND (logging OR log))

Stage 1

1. Query result: 291 studies
2. Title reading: 24 studies
3. Abstract reading: 14 studies
4. Full reading: 9 studies

Stage 2

1. Snowballing result: 18 studies

Final Set

27 studies

Logging libraries

1. PYLP Index

   • Print May 2021
   • Dataset

2. Google Search prints:

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   • C#: Result
   • C: Result
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   • PHP: Result
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   • Swift: Result
   • Kotlin: Result
   • Matlab: Result
   • Go: Result
   • Rust: Result
   • VBA: Result
   • Ruby: Result

3. Found libraries

4. Selected libraries with severity levels

5. Log levels definitions from libraries

Practitioners' vision

Search String:

"log levels" is:question

1. StackOverflow Hits

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2. StackOverflow prints

   • QSO1
   • QSO2
   • QSO3
   • QSO4

3. Log level definitions