Software fault injection is an emerging technology that can be used to observe how software systems behave under experimentally controlled anomalous circumstances In so doing software fault injection acts as a crystal ball predicting how badly software might behave should things go awry both internally and externally during execution Such predictions provide clues as to how robust a piece of co...

The corresponding author Abstract—A multi-layered fault injection mode is explored and a multi-layered system robustness testing strategy based on abnormal parameter is put forward. Fault injection methods for three layers (API, DPI and system calls based on workloads) of Linux operation system are designed. And an integrated fault injection platform to multi-layered fault injection for testing...

Analyzing and evaluating the sensitivity of embedded systems to soft-errors have always been a challenge for aerospace or safety equipment designer. Different automated fault-injection methods have been developed for evaluating the sensitivity of integrated circuit. Also many techniques have been developed to get a fault tolerant architecture in order to mask and mitigate fault injection in a c...

The complex interactions between faults, errors, failures and fault handling mechanisms can be studied via injection experiments. This paper presents an investigation of both fault and error injection techniques for emulating software faults. For evaluation, 1600 software faults and 5400 time-triggered errors were injected into an embedded real-time system. The cost-related results are: (i) the...

The increasing complexity of processors allied to the continuous technology shrink is making multicore-based systems more susceptible to soft errors. The high cost and time inherent to hardware-based fault injection approaches make the more efficient simulation-based fault injection frameworks crucial to test reliability. This paper proposes a fast, flexible fault injector framework which suppo...

In this paper, we propose a new technique that uses fault injection to reverse-engineer a private block cipher implemented with an unknown S-box. The private algorithm we wish to retrieve differs from a known algorithm in the choice of the S-Box, which we find using a novel, fault-injecting technique. The main idea is to consider the components of the S-Box as the solutions of a linear boolean ...

Most fault injection tools have been developed with a specific fault injection technique in mind targeting a specific system, and using a custom designed user interface. The GOOFI (Generic Object-Oriented Fault Injection) tool [1] is designed to be adaptable to various target systems and different fault injection techniques in a user-friendly way. The GOOFI tool has been used to evaluate severa...