Designing fault tolerant software with a recovery meta program

Author

Clematis, A. ; Dodero, G. ; Gianuzzi, V.

Author_Institution

Istituto Matematica Applicata, CNR, Genova, Italy

fYear

1990

fDate

21-23 Mar 1990

Firstpage

864

Lastpage

865

Abstract

Most of the systems intended to support software fault tolerance in application programs (AP$) adopt one of two complementary strategies: (1) a set of low-level facilities (e.g. replicated objects, reliable communication protocols, and reliable file manipulation) is provided to the AP programmer, who has to coordinate their use within his/her software; (2) some particular language construct is provided to take checkpoints, and perform rollbacks. The authors propose an approach which combines both strategies; they describe a programming environment which exploits the difference in the concerns in designing an AP and making it fault tolerant

Keywords

fault tolerant computing; programming environments; application programs; checkpoints; fault tolerance software design; language construct; low-level facilities; programming environment; recovery meta program; reliable communication protocols; reliable file manipulation; replicated objects; rollbacks; Application software; Communication system software; Fault tolerance; Kernel; Libraries; Programming environments; Programming profession; Software design; Software performance; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1990. Conference Proceedings., Ninth Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2030-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1990.101712

Filename

101712