Software Reliability and Fault Injection
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 5792
Special Issue Editor
Interests: software reliability; testing; fault injection
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Dear Colleagues,
The MDPI journal Information invites submissions to a Special Issue on “Software Reliability and Fault Injection”.
Modern society is increasingly dependent on computer-based systems and their controlling software. This includes all aspects of life, from basic consumer services, including financial transactions to medical care and power distribution. This pervasive nature of software systems raises the necessity of assuring the quality of software. Given the increasing complexity of modern software and the inevitable difficulty in its assuring quality, methodologies and techniques for testing and measuring the reliability of software are very relevant to academia and industry.
Fault injection is a relevant methodology used in many critical application scenarios to evaluate system robustness, risk and worst-case scenarios. Its fundamental idea is to inject artificial faults representative of realistic ones into one or more specific modules of a system to evaluate the overall system behavior and the efficacy of fault tolerant systems. The use of fault injection can help developers and integrators to identify weak aspects of a system during development, and to measure the risk of using third-party components, allowing for the deployment of preventive mitigation actions, such as wrappers or further development.
Given the increasing complexity and size of software and its role in modern society, assuring software reliability is a very relevant topic. Fault injection is a time-proven technique that helps to evaluate the reliability of systems. Given the complexity of current software systems, fault injection tools and techniques must deal with hard problems, including reachability, observability, controllability and fault definition. Despite the very large body of work already existing, contributions concerning tools, models and methodologies on software reliability and on fault injection and software remain very relevant.
Prof. Dr. Joao Duraes
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- software reliability
- fault injection
- software testing
- robustness testing
- software quality
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