Dependability concerns, encompassing robustness assessment, are essential questions to answer before a developer can make the decision whether to integrate off-the-shelf (OTS) components into a dependable system. Here, and in what follows, robustness is understood as the degree to which a system operates correctly in the presence of exceptional inputs or stressful environmental conditions, in c...

Device-driver development and testing is a complex and error-prone undertaking. For example, testing errorhandling code requires simulating faulty inputs from the device. A single driver may support dozens of devices, and a developer may not have access to any of them. Consequently, many Linux driver patches include the comment “compile tested only.” SymDrive is a system for testing Linux and F...

OBJECTIVES The 2013 World Health Organization Status Report on Road Safety estimated that approximately 1.24 million deaths occur annually due to road traffic crashes with most of the burden falling on low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this research is to study the prevalence of road traffic crashes in Mekelle, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia and to identify risk factors with the ult...