Fault Injection Technology for Software Vulnerability Testing Based on Xen

Fault injection technology devotes an efficient way for verifying fault tolerance of computer and detecting the vulnerability of software system. In this paper, we present a Xen-based fault injection technology for software vulnerability test (XFISV) in order to build an efficient and general-purpose software test model, which injects faults into interactive layer between software applications and their environments. This technology has two main contributions: First, detecting the software vulnerability according to this model needs less number of fault test cases. Second, this model enhances the flexibility and the robustness of the fault injection tools with economical resource cost.