Multidimensional Characterization of the Impact of Faulty Drivers on the Operating Systems Behavior

João DURÃES; Henrique MADEIRA

Multidimensional Characterization of the Impact of Faulty Drivers on the Operating Systems Behavior

João DURÃES, Henrique MADEIRA

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This paper presents the results of a continuing research work on the practical characterization of operating systems (OS) behavior in the presence of software faults in OS components, such as faulty device drivers. The methodology used is based on the emulation of software faults in device drivers and observation of the behavior of the overall system regarding a comprehensive set of failure modes, analyzed according to different dimensions related to multiple user perspectives. The emulation of the software faults is done through the injection of specific mutations at machine-code level that reproduce the code generated by compilers when typical programming errors occur in the high level language code. Two important aspects of this methodology are the independence of source code availability and the use of simple and established practices to evaluate operating systems failure modes, thus allowing its use as a dependability benchmarking technique. The generalization of the methodology to any software system built of discrete and identifiable components is also discussed.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E86-D No.12 pp.2563-2570

Publication Date: 2003/12/01

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Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Dependable Computing)

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João DURÃES, Henrique MADEIRA, "Multidimensional Characterization of the Impact of Faulty Drivers on the Operating Systems Behavior" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information, vol. E86-D, no. 12, pp. 2563-2570, December 2003, doi: .
Abstract: This paper presents the results of a continuing research work on the practical characterization of operating systems (OS) behavior in the presence of software faults in OS components, such as faulty device drivers. The methodology used is based on the emulation of software faults in device drivers and observation of the behavior of the overall system regarding a comprehensive set of failure modes, analyzed according to different dimensions related to multiple user perspectives. The emulation of the software faults is done through the injection of specific mutations at machine-code level that reproduce the code generated by compilers when typical programming errors occur in the high level language code. Two important aspects of this methodology are the independence of source code availability and the use of simple and established practices to evaluate operating systems failure modes, thus allowing its use as a dependability benchmarking technique. The generalization of the methodology to any software system built of discrete and identifiable components is also discussed.
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