"In architecting dependable systems, what is required to improve the overall system robustness is fault tolerance. Many methods have been proposed to this end, the solutions are usually considered late during the design and implementation phases of the software life-cycle (e.g., Java and Windows NT exception handling), thus reducing the effectiveness error and fault handling. Since the system design typically models only normal behaviour of the system while ignoring exceptional ones, the implementation of the system is unable to handle abnormal events. Consequently, the system may fail in unexpected ways due to faults." "It has been argued that fault tolerance management during the entire life-cycle improves the overall system robustness and that different classes of threats need to be identified for and dealt with at each distinct phase of software development, depending on the abstraction level of the software system being modelled." "This book builds on this trend and investigates how fault tolerance mechanisms can be applied when engineering a software system. In particular, it identifies the new problems arising in this area, introduces the new models to be applied at different abstraction levels, defines methodologies for model-driven engineering of such systems and outlines the new technologies and validation and verification environments supporting this."--Jacket

Software Engineering of Fault Tolerance Systems (Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering) (Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering) (Series ... Engineering and Knowledge Engineering)

Software Engineering of Fault Tolerant Systems (Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering)

P Pelliccione; World Scientific (Firm)

editors, P. Pelliccione ... [et al.]

Pelliccione, P. (Patrizio)

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific

World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Series on software engineering and knowledge engineering -- vol. 19, New Jersey, New Jersey, 2007

Series on software engineering and knowledge engineering, Singapore [u.a, 2007

Series on software engineering and knowledge engineering, Singapore, c2007

Singapore, Singapore

Illustrated, 2007

August 13, 2007

Includes bibliographical references.

x, 281 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction / P. Pelliccione, H. Muccini, N. Guelfi and A. Romanovsky -- Pt. A. Fault Tolerance Engineering: From Requirements to Code -- Exploiting Reflection to Enable Scalable and Performant Database Replication at the Middleware Level / J. Salas, R. Jimenez-Peris, M. Patino-Martinez and B. Kemme -- Adding Fault-Tolerance to State Machine-Based Designs / S. S. Kulkarni, A. Arora and A. Ebnenasir -- Replication in Service-Oriented Systems / J. Osrael, L. Froihofer and K. M. Goeschka -- Pt. B. Verification and Validation of Fault Tolerant Systems -- Embedded Software Validation Using On-Chip Debugging Mechanisms / J. Pardo, J. C. Campelo, J. C. Ruiz and P. Gil -- Error Detection in Control Flow of Event-Driven State Based Applications / G. Pinter and I. Majzik -- Fault-Tolerant Communication for Distributed Embedded Systems / C. Kuhnel and M. Spichkova -- Pt. C. Languages and Tools for Engineering Fault Tolerant Systems -- A Model Driven Exception Management Framework / S. Entwisle and E. Kendall -- Runtime Failure Detection and Adaptive Repair for Fault-Tolerant Component-Based Applications / R. Su, M. R. V. Chaudron and J. J. Lukkien -- Extending the Applicability of the Neko Framework for the Validation and Verification of Distributed Algorithms / L. Falai and A. Bondavalli

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