Xception/sup TM/ - enhanced automated fault-injection environment

Abstract

Discusses Xception, an automated fault injection environment that enables accurate and flexible V&V (verification & validation) and evaluation of mission and business critical computer systems using fault injection. Xception is designed to accommodate a variety of fault injection techniques (according to a wide range of configurations of the tool) and emulate in this way different classes of faults, with particular emphasis to hardware and software faults.