Title :
Dependable software through fault tolerance
Author_Institution :
NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Abstract :
The author discusses various approaches for developing highly dependable software and presents an overview of software fault tolerance techniques. Diversity is the main ingredient of fault tolerance. Various forms of diversity such as design diversity, data diversity and functional diversity and their potentials in tolerating errors in a complex software are also discussed
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; software reliability; data diversity; dependable software; design diversity; functional diversity; software fault tolerance techniques; Application software; Availability; Computer applications; Computer errors; Delay; Fault tolerance; Hardware; NASA; Software design; Software performance;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON '89. Fourth IEEE Region 10 International Conference
Conference_Location :
Bombay
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.1989.176965
