Impact of Internal and External Software Faults on the Linux Kernel

Tahar JARBOUI, Jean ARLAT, Yves CROUZET, Karama KANOUN, Thomas MARTEAU

Abstract

The application of fault injection in the context of dependability benchmarking is far from being straightforward. One decisive issue to be addressed is to what extent injected faults are representative of the considered faults. This paper proposes an approach to analyze the effects of real and injected faults.

Keywords: Software faults, error analysis, fault injection, operating system, dependability benchmark.