Customizing virtual machine with fault injector by integrating with specc device model for a software testing environment D-cloud

Proceedings - 16th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 47-54

  Hanawa, Toshihiro ^a   Koizumi, Hitoshi ^a   Banzai, Takayuki ^a   Sato, Mitsuhisa ^a   Miura, Shin'ichi ^a   Ishii, Tadatoshi ^b   Takamizawa, Hidehisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b InterDesign Technologies Inc   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cloud computing technology; Dependable operating system; Fault injection; Software testing; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING RESOURCE; COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; DEPENDABLE OPERATING SYSTEM; DEVICE MODELS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FAULT INJECTION; FAULT INJECTOR; HARDWARE FAULTS; MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE; NEW DEVICES; PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; SYSTEM DESCRIPTION; TEST PROCEDURES; TEST SCENARIO; TESTING ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79951839234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.2010.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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