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Software-faults: The remaining problem in fault tolerant systems?

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Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance (Fault Tolerance 1993)

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This paper discusses the problems of software-faults in computer systems, and how such faults can be tolerated. After introducing some terminology, the characteristics of software faults and their effects are described. Then four approaches to software-fault tolerance are described. Finally, an architecture for fault tolerant software components is outlined.

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, England

    P. A. Lee

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Lee, P.A. (1994). Software-faults: The remaining problem in fault tolerant systems?. In: Banâtre, M., Lee, P.A. (eds) Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance. Fault Tolerance 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020032

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