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Designing Fault Tolerance in Software Architectures

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In this chapter, we present fault tolerance as an architectural quality and how to express fault tolerance in software architecture. We explain how to analyze an architecture to evaluate its fault tolerance and how to apply tactics to improve fault tolerance.

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  1. Bass, L., Clements, P., Kazman, R.: Software Architectures in Practice, 2nd edn. Addison Wesley, Reading (2003)

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  2. Clements, P., Bachmann, L., Garlan, D., Ivers, J., Little, R., Merson, P., Nord, R.: Documenting Software Architecture: Views and Beyond. SEI Series in Software Engineering (2003)

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Oquendo, F., Leite, J., Batista, T. (2016). Designing Fault Tolerance in Software Architectures. In: Software Architecture in Action. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44339-3_11

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