Injection of faults at component interfaces and inside the component code: Are they equivalent?

Proceedings - Sixth European Dependable Computing Conference, EDCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 53-62

  Moraes, R ^a   Barbosa, R ^b   Duraes J ^c   Mendes, N ^c   Martins, E ^a   Madeira, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Critical Software SA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER CRIME; FAULT DETECTION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

DEPENDABILITY EVALUATION; OPERATIONAL SCENARIOS; PROGRAMMING ERRORS; SOFTWARE BUGS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 34547492895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDCC.2006.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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