Title :
Analyzing fault effects in fault insertion experiments
Author :
Gawkowski, P. ; Sosnowski, J.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Sci., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Poland
Abstract :
Addresses the problem of evaluating system sensitivity to hardware faults. For this purpose the authors use a software implemented fault injector with extended statistical capabilities (FITS). The main contribution of the paper is the formulation of basic factors influencing system dependability and checking them in experiments. These experiments have been performed on an IBM PC platform
Keywords :
error detection; fault tolerant computing; redundancy; system recovery; FITS; IBM PC platform; extended statistical capabilities; fault detection mechanisms; fault effects; fault insertion experiments; fault tolerance mechanisms; fine grained fault tracing; hardware faults; software implemented fault injector; system dependability; system sensitivity; Application software; Circuit faults; Computer errors; Computer science; Fault detection; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Registers; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
On-Line Testing Workshop, 2001. Proceedings. Seventh International
Conference_Location :
Taormina
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1290-9
DOI :
10.1109/OLT.2001.937812
