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Reliability and availability are mandatory requirements for numerous applications. Technical apparatus to study system dependability is essential to support software deployment and maintenance. Software aging is a related issue in this context. Software aging is a cumulative process which leads systems with long-running execution to hangs or failures. Software rejuvenation is used to prevent software aging problems. Software rejuvenation actions comprise system reboot or application restart to bringing software to a stable fresh state. This paper proposes a methodology to conduct software aging and software rejuvenation experiments. The approach has three phases: (i) Stress Phase-stress environment with the accelerated workload to induce bugs activation; (ii) Wait Phase-stop workload submission to observe the system state after workload submission; (iii) Rejuvenation Phase-find the impacts caused by the software rejuvenation. We named our methodology as SWARE (Stress-Wait-Rejuvenation). To validate the SWARE methodology, we present a case study. This case study consists of an experiment of VM Live Migration as rejuvenation mechanism for VMM software aging. The considered testbed is a Private Cloud with OpenNebula and KVM 1.0. The obtained results show that VM live migration is useful as rejuvenation for VMM software aging.

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