• DocumentCode
    3126758
  • Title

    Examining fault-tolerance using unlikely inputs: turning the test distribution up-side down

  • Author

    Voas, Jeffrey M. ; Miller, Keith W.

  • Author_Institution
    Reliable Software Technol. Corp., Sterling, VA, USA
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    25-29 Jun 1995
  • Firstpage
    3
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    This paper turns the concept of input distributions on its head to exploit “inverse input distributions”. Although such distributions are not true mathematical inverse functions, they capture the intuitive property of members that have high frequencies in the original distribution have low frequencies in the “inverse” distribution, and vice versa. These new distributions have uses in testing for reliability estimates, and more importantly, fault-tolerance analysis
  • Keywords
    fault tolerant computing; software engineering; fault-tolerance; fault-tolerance analysis; inverse input distributions; reliability estimates; test distribution; unlikely inputs; Fault tolerance; Frequency; Humans; Programming; Protection; Reliability engineering; Robustness; Software measurement; Software testing; Turning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Assurance, 1995. COMPASS '95. Systems Integrity, Software Safety and Process Security. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Gaithersburg, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2680-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CMPASS.1995.521882
  • Filename
    521882