A PIN-Based Dynamic Software Fault Injection System

Author

Jin, Ang ; Jiang, Jianhui ; Hu, Jiawei ; Lou, Jungang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tongji Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2008

fDate

18-21 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

2160

Lastpage

2167

Abstract

Fault injection plays a critical role in the verification of fault-tolerant mechanism, software testing and dependability benchmarking for computer systems. In this paper, according to the characteristics of software faults, we propose a new fault injection design pattern based on the PIN framework provided by Intel company, and develop a PIN-based dynamic software fault injection system (PDSFIS). Faults can be injected by PDSFIS without the source code of target applications under assessment, nor does the injection process involve interruption or software traps. Experimental assessment results of an Apache Web server obtained by the dependability benchmarking are presented to demonstrate the potentials of PDSFIS.

Keywords

program testing; program verification; software fault tolerance; PIN-based dynamic software fault injection system; dependability benchmarking; fault injection design pattern; fault-tolerant mechanism; software testing; software verification; Benchmark testing; Emulation; Fault tolerance; Genetic mutations; Hardware; Software design; Software systems; Software testing; System testing; Web server; Fault injection; PIN; dependability benchmarking; software fault injection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Young Computer Scientists, 2008. ICYCS 2008. The 9th International Conference for

Conference_Location

Hunan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3398-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3398-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICYCS.2008.329

Filename

4709308