{"title":"A Two Dimensional Scheme To Evaluate The Adequacy Of Fault Tolerance Testing","authors":"R. DeMillo, Tsanchi Li, A. Mathur","doi":"10.1109/WIEM.1994.654408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIEM.1994.654408","url":null,"abstract":"Fault-tolerant design becomes increasingly important with the growth in the demand for non-stop computer based service. The criticality of fault-tolerant software suggests the importance of testing it to examine how well it can tolerate unforeseen faults. In the past, researchers have proposed several techniques, built and used tools towards this end. A representative along the efforts is the AAS fault tolerance testing [4]. Indispensable for such tools is a notion of “adequacy” of a test for fault tolerance to reflect how well the test has been conducted. An “adequacy” measure is suggests possible improvements in a test. It also serves as a basis to decide the release time of the software. We propose a new quantitative adequacy criteria that can be measured with the aid of a prototype tool under implementation. Our criteria and the underlying rationale are mentioned in the remainder of this paper.","PeriodicalId":386840,"journal":{"name":"Third Int'l Workshop on Integrating Error Models with Fault Injection","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128928002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Verification Of Error Models Through Low-level Simulation","authors":"T. Tsai, G. Choi, R. K. Iyer","doi":"10.1109/WIEM.1994.654394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIEM.1994.654394","url":null,"abstract":"An important issue in fault-injection is the verification of the error models as representative of reahstic errors. One technique to perform this verification involves the injection of faults using a low-level circuit simulator. The errors that are eventually propagated to the chip-pin or higher level level can be considered to be those errors which are most likely to occur, based on those faults. These errors should form the basis for the error models used in higher fault level injection mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":386840,"journal":{"name":"Third Int'l Workshop on Integrating Error Models with Fault Injection","volume":"26 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114136327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Jenn, J. Arlat, M. Rimén, J. Ohlsson, J. Karlsson
{"title":"Fault Injection Into VHDL Models: A Fault Injection Tool And Some Preliminary Experimental Results","authors":"E. Jenn, J. Arlat, M. Rimén, J. Ohlsson, J. Karlsson","doi":"10.1109/WIEM.1994.654393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIEM.1994.654393","url":null,"abstract":"Two main trends characterize recent work on fault injection: (i) apply fault injection as early as possible in the design process of fault-tolerant systems, i.e., into simulation models of the target fault-tolerant system and (ii) when dealing with the implementation of the target fault-tolerant system, favor software-implemented fault injection, i.e., based on the mutation of the executing software or of the data.","PeriodicalId":386840,"journal":{"name":"Third Int'l Workshop on Integrating Error Models with Fault Injection","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117212083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Failure Mode And Effects Analysis (FMEA) Process For Distributed Computing Systems A Guidance Paper","authors":"J. Becker","doi":"10.1109/WIEM.1994.654404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIEM.1994.654404","url":null,"abstract":"Regardless of the the processing environment, the size of the system, and the fault tolerance or dependable computing requirements, one needs to understand and document not only how a design is to function, but how the system is expected to fail or tolerate faults, thereby avoiding system failures. If Dr. Frankenstein had thought beyond giving his creation life, the disastrous effects experienced by him and the community might have been avoided and the term “monster” may not have been used to label his creation.","PeriodicalId":386840,"journal":{"name":"Third Int'l Workshop on Integrating Error Models with Fault Injection","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123456495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}