An important step in the development of dependable systems is the validation of their fault tolerance properties. Fault injection has been widely used for this purpose, however with the rapid increase in processor complexity, traditional techniques are also increasingly more difficult to apply. This paper presents a new software implemented fault injection and monitoring environment, called Xception, which is targeted for the modern and complex processors. Xception uses the advanced debugging and performance monitoring features existing in most of the modern processors to inject quite realistic faults by software, and to monitor the activation of the faults and their impact on the target system behavior in detail. Faults are injected with minimum interference with the target application. The target application is not modified, no software traps are inserted, and it is not necessary to execute the target application in special trace mode (the application is executed at full speed). Xception provides a comprehensive set of fault triggers, including spatial and temporal fault triggers, and triggers related to the manipulation of data in memory. Faults injected by Xception can affect any process running on the target system (including the kernel), and it is possible to inject faults in applications for which the source code is not available. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and potential of Xception in the evaluation of the dependability properties of the complex computer systems available nowadays.
Subject
Fault Injection
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 24, #2, pp. 125-136, February 1998
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Year 1999 : 13 citations
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Wee Teck Ng e Peter Chen, "The Systematic Improvement of Fault Tolerance in the Rio File Cache?, Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium, FTCS-29, 15 a 18 de Junho de 1999, Madison, Wisconsin, EUA, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp 76-83, ISBN 0-7695-0213-X;
Jean Arlat, Jérome Boué, Yves Crouzet "Validation-Based Development of Dependable Systems" IEEE MICRO, Vol. 19, No. 4; JULY-AUGUST 1999, pp. 66-79
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Year 1998 : 1 citations
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