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In this paper we present a fault-injector tool, named JAFL (Java Fault Loader), that was developed with the target of testing the fault-tolerance mechanisms of Grid and Web applications. Along with the JAFL internals description, we will present some results collected from synthetic experiments where we used both our injector and fault detection mechanisms. With these results we expect to prove that our fault injection tool can be actively used to evaluate fault detection mechanisms.
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Rodrigues, N., Sousa, D., Silva, L. (2008). A Fault-Injector Tool to Evaluate Failure Detectors in Grid-Services. In: Making Grids Work. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78448-9_21
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