Fault injection experiments using FIAT. Barton, J. H., Czeck, E. W., Segall, Z. Z, & Siewiorek, D. P. 39(4):575–582.
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The results of several experiments conducted using the fault-injection-based automated testing (FIAT) system are presented. FIAT is capable of emulating a variety of distributed system architectures, and it provides the capabilities to monitor system behavior and inject faults for the purpose of experimental characterization and validation of a system's dependability. The experiments consists of exhaustively injecting three separate fault types into various locations, encompassing both the code and data portions of memory images, of two distinct applications executed with several different data values and sizes. Fault types are variations of memory bit faults. The results show that there are a limited number of system-level fault manifestations. These manifestations follow a normal distribution for each fault type. Error detection latencies are found to be normally distributed. The methodology can be used to predict the system-level fault responses during the system design stage
@Article{barton90fault,
  author       = {Barton, James H. and Czeck, Edward W. and Segall, Zary Z and Siewiorek, Daniel P.},
  title        = {Fault injection experiments using {FIAT}},
  volume       = {39},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {575--582},
  issn         = {0018-9340},
  abstract     = {The results of several experiments conducted using the fault-injection-based automated testing ({FIAT}) system are presented. {FIAT} is capable of emulating a variety of distributed system architectures, and it provides the capabilities to monitor system behavior and inject faults for the purpose of experimental characterization and validation of a system's dependability. The experiments consists of exhaustively injecting three separate fault types into various locations, encompassing both the code and data portions of memory images, of two distinct applications executed with several different data values and sizes. Fault types are variations of memory bit faults. The results show that there are a limited number of system-level fault manifestations. These manifestations follow a normal distribution for each fault type. Error detection latencies are found to be normally distributed. The methodology can be used to predict the system-level fault responses during the system design stage},
  date         = {1990},
  doi          = {10.1109/12.54853},
  file         = {:barton90fault - Fault injection experiments using {FIAT}.pdf:PDF},
  groups       = {fault injection},
  journaltitle = {{IEEE} Transactions on Computers},
  keywords     = {Automatic testing, Computer applications, Computer architecture, distributed system architectures, Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, error detection latencies, fault-injection-based automated testing, fault injection experiments, Fault tolerance, fault tolerant computing, Fault tolerant systems, Lagrangian functions, Mathematical model, memory images, {NASA}, Notice of Violation, Software packages, system behavior, system-level fault manifestations},
  timestamp    = {2018-01-18},
}

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