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A Strategy for Validating an ODBMS Component Using a High-Level Software Fault Injection Tool

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Dependable Computing (LADC 2003)

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We present a strategy for the validation of an Object Oriented Database Management System (ODBMS), an off-the-shelf component software, when we deliberately introduced faults and observe its behavior in the presence of these faults. A tool designed for the injection of faults in OO applications, specially Java language systems, was used. This Software Fault Injection tool, Jaca, was developed at UNICAMP and has the ability to inject faults in objects’ attributes and methods. For the experiments we used an ODBMS performance test benchmark, Wisconsin OO7. The experiments were aimed at validating the robustness of the ODBMS component in the presence of errors originated at the application. For that purpose a fault injection strategy was proposed to help answer the questions: Where to inject? What error model to use? This strategy was applied, so some results and their analysis are presented. Improvement for Jaca were addressed as a experiments’ result.

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  1. Superior Center of Technology Education (CESET), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP),  

    Regina Lúcia de Oliveira Moraes

  2. Institute of Computing (IC), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP),  

    Eliane Martins

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

    Taisy Silva Weber

  3. Escola Politécnica Travessa 3, Número, Universidade de São Paulo,, 158, Edifício de Engenharia Eletricidade, 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    João Batista Camargo Jr.

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de Oliveira Moraes, R.L., Martins, E. (2003). A Strategy for Validating an ODBMS Component Using a High-Level Software Fault Injection Tool. In: de Lemos, R., Weber, T.S., Camargo, J.B. (eds) Dependable Computing. LADC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2847. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45214-0_7

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