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Developing software for mobile platforms we face the problem of dealing with various erroneous situations, transient faults, component incompatibilities which influence their operations. This results in the need of embedding error detection mechanisms and handling them software procedures. This problem has been appreciated by Samsung. As the consequence of this need we have developed a special tool (LRFI) which allows simulating various fault effects and observe their propagation as well as the effectiveness of handling them in real mobile products of Samsung. The paper outlines the capabilities of fault injection technique and presents an original tool dedicated for mobile environment. Some practical experience with this tool has been also reported.
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Gawkowski, P., Pawełczyk, P., Sosnowski, J., Cabaj, K., Gajda, M. (2011). LRFI – Fault Injection Tool for Testing Mobile Software. In: Ryżko, D., Rybiński, H., Gawrysiak, P., Kryszkiewicz, M. (eds) Emerging Intelligent Technologies in Industry. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 369. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22732-5_22
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