NDLI: A language-driven tool for fault injection in distributed systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hoara, W. Tixeuil, S.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: LRI-CNRS, France (Hoara, W.; Tixeuil, S.)
Abstract	In a network consisting of several thousands computers, the occurrence of faults is unavoidable. Being able to test the behavior of a distributed program in an environment where we can control the faults (such as the crash of a process) is an important feature that matters in the deployment of reliable programs. In this paper, we present FAIL (for FAult Injection Language), a language that permits to elaborate complex fault scenarios in a simple way, while relieving the user from writing low level code. Besides, it is possible to construct probabilistic scenarios (for average quantitative tests) or deterministic and reproducible scenarios (for studying the application's behavior in particular cases). We also present FCI, the FAIL cluster implementation, that consists of a compiler, a runtime library and a middleware platform for software fault injection in distributed applications. FCI is able to interface with numerous programming languages without requiring the modification of their source code, and the preliminary tests that we conducted show that its effective impact at runtime is low.
File Size	173851
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780394925
DOI	10.1109/GRID.2005.1542742
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-11-13
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Application software Computer crashes Hardware Fault tolerance System testing Intelligent networks Computer networks Distributed computing Vehicle crash testing Computer network reliability
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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