On the impact of injection triggers for OS robustness evaluation

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 127-136

  Johansson, Andréas ^a   Suri, Neeraj ^a   Murphy, Brendan ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; LOCATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SHELTERS (FROM ATTACK); SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

CASE STUDIES; FAULT-INJECTION; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LOCATION-BASED; OPERATING SYSTEMS (OS); OPERATIONAL USAGE; REAL WORLD; ROBUSTNESS EVALUATION; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; SYSTEM STATES;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 44649138852     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2007.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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