NDLI: An experimental evaluation on reliability features of N-version programming

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Xia Cai Lyu, M.R. Vouk, M.A.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong (Xia Cai; Lyu, M.R.)
Abstract	Although N-version programming has been employed in some mission-critical applications, the reliability and fault correlation issues remain a debatable topic in the research community. In this paper, we perform a comprehensive evaluation on our recent project data on N-version programming and present statistical investigations on coincident failures and correlated faults. Furthermore, we compare our project with NASA 4-University project to identify the "variants" and "invariants" with respect to failure rate, fault density, coincident failures, related faults, and reliability improvement for N-version programming. Our experimental results support fault tolerance as an effective software reliability engineering technique
Starting Page	10
Ending Page	170
File Size	153081
Page Count	161
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769524826
ISSN	10719458
DOI	10.1109/ISSRE.2005.7
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-11-08
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	NASA Reliability engineering Application software Fault tolerance Computer science Mission critical systems Performance evaluation Software reliability Software testing Fault diagnosis empirical study N-version programming fault correlation reliability software fault tolerance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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