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Injecting Communication Faults to Experimentally Validate Java Distributed Applications

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Advanced Distributed Systems (ISSADS 2005)

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The use of Java to develop highly available network services and the inherent unreliability of communication systems require the validation of its fault tolerance mechanisms to avoid unexpected behavior during execution. Tools for testing distributed programs that must remain operational in a faulty environment are not common and are generally difficult to operate. One possible solution is applying a fault injector to emulate communication faults and test the behavior of the distributed application under these faults. We developed Jaca.net, an extension of the fault injector based on computational reflection Jaca, to include UDP communication faults to its fault model. Potential target applications of Jaca and Jaca.net are the ones developed in Java. Using Jaca.net, software developers can complete the test cycle validating the high level fault detection and recovery mechanisms built on their applications.

Project developed in collaboration with HP Brazil R&D and CNPq/Brazil Project ACERTE (#472084/2003-8)

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  1. Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Caixa Postal 15064, 90501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Gabriela Jacques-Silva, Roberto Jung Drebes & Taisy Silva Weber

  2. Instituto de Computação, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Caixa Postal 6176, 13083-870, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Eliane Martins

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  1. Multi-Agent Systems Development Group, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Prolongación López Mateos Sur No. 590, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México

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  2. Department "Sistemas de Informacion", Universidad de Guadalajara, CUCEA, 799, Periferico Norte, Ed. L308, 45100, Zapopan, Jal., Mexico

    Victor Larios Rosillo

  3. Computer Science Dept., University of Rostock, 18051, Rostock, Germany

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Jacques-Silva, G., Drebes, R.J., Weber, T.S., Martins, E. (2005). Injecting Communication Faults to Experimentally Validate Java Distributed Applications. In: Ramos, F.F., Larios Rosillo, V., Unger, H. (eds) Advanced Distributed Systems. ISSADS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11533962_21

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