LFI: A practical and general library-level fault injector

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 379-388

  Marinescu, Paul D ^a   Candea, George ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT INJECTION; FAULT INJECTOR; FAULT SCENARIOS; HUMAN LABOR; MANUAL LABORS; ROBUST SYSTEMS; SOLARIS; SOURCE CODES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; JET PUMPS; LIBRARIES; SOFTWARE TESTING;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 70449857603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2009.5270313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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