A Survey of Software Fault Tolerance Techniques
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چکیده
This report examines the state of the field of software fault tolerance. Terminology, techniques for building reliable systems, andfault tolerance are discussed. While a scientific consensus on the measurement of software reliability has not been reached, software systems are sufficiently pervasive that' 'software components" of larger systems must be reliable, since dependence is placed on them. Fault tolerant systems utilize redundant components to mitigate the e[fecL~ of component failures, and thus create a system which is more reliable than a single component. This idea can be applied to software systems as well. Several techniques for designing fault tolerant software systems are discussed and assessed qualitatively, where "software fault" refers to what is more commonly known as a bug. The assumptions, relative merits, available experimental results, and implementation experience are discussed for each technique. This leads us to some conclusions about the state of the field.
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