NDLI: Emulation of software faults by educated mutations at machine-code level

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Duraes, J. Madeira, H.
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Author affiliation: CISUC, Polytech. Inst. of Coimbra, Portugal (Duraes, J.)
Abstract	This paper proposes a new technique to emulate software faults by educated mutations introduced at the machine-code level and presents an experimental study on the accuracy of the injected faults. The proposed method consists of finding key programming structures at the machine code-level where high-level software faults can be emulated. The main advantage of emulating software faults at the machine-code level is that software faults can be injected even when the source code of the target application is not available, which is very important for the evaluation of COTS components or for the validation of software fault tolerance techniques in COTS based systems. The technique was evaluated using several real programs and different types of faults and, additionally, it includes our study on the key aspects that may impact on the technique accuracy. The portability of the technique is also addressed. The results show that classes of faults such as assignment, checking, interface, and simple algorithm faults can be directly emulated using this technique.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Committee on Software Eng. IEEE Reliabiltiy Soc. IBM Microsoft Res. Cigital
Starting Page	329
Ending Page	340
File Size	400976
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769517633
ISSN	10719458
DOI	10.1109/ISSRE.2002.1173283
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-11-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Emulation Genetic mutations Software testing Software measurement Programming Software reliability Software systems Software packages Software quality Reliability engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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