Software fault tolerance
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- MERGE WITH Fault-tolerant software
Software fault tolerance is the ability of computer software to continue its normal operation despite the presence of system or hardware faults.
Introduction[edit]
The only thing constant is change. This is certainly more true of software systems than almost any phenomenon,[1] not all software change in the same way so software fault tolerance methods are designed to overcome execution errors by modifying variable values to create an acceptable program state.[2] The need to control software fault is one of the most rising challenges facing software industries today. It is obvious that fault tolerance must be a key consideration in the early stage of software development.
There exist different mechanisms for software fault tolerance, among which:
- Recovery blocks
- N-version software
- Self-checking software
See also[edit]
- Built-in self-test
- Built-in test equipment
- Immunity-aware programming
- Logic built-in self-test
- N-version programming
- Safety engineering
References[edit]
- ^ Eckhardt, D. E., "Fundamental Differences in the Reliability of N-Modular Redundancy and N-Version Programming", The Journal of Systems and Software, 8, 1988, pp. 313–318.
- ^ Ray Giguette and Johnette Hassell, “Toward A Resourceful Method of Software Fault Tolerance”, ACM Southeast regional conference, April, 1999.
