Title :
Using software implemented fault inserter in dependability analysis
Author :
Gawkowski, P. ; Sosnowski, J.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Sci., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Poland
Abstract :
We investigate program susceptibility to hardware faults in Win32 environment. For this purpose we use the software implemented fault injector FITS. We analyze natural fault resistivity of COTS systems and the effectiveness of various software techniques improving system dependability. The problems of experiment tuning and result interpretation are discussed in context of a wide spectrum of applications.
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; operating systems (computers); software reliability; COTS; FITS; Win32 environment; dependability analysis; experiment tuning; hardware faults; natural fault resistivity; program fault susceptibility; software implemented fault inserter; system dependability; Application software; Computer science; Conductivity; Databases; Fault detection; Fault tolerance; Hardware; Software systems; System testing; Uninterruptible power systems;
Conference_Titel :
Dependable Computing, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 Pacific Rim International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1852-4
DOI :
10.1109/PRDC.2002.1185622
