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Fault injection plays a critical role in the verification of fault-tolerant mechanism, software mutation testing and dependability benchmark for computer systems. Derived from the common java bug patterns from Findbugs, we propose a new scheme for emulation of software faults at the java bytecode level, and have developed a preliminary framework called JBugInjector to support fault injection application. Different from the traditional Orthogonal Defect Classification of faults, we analyze the peculiar bug patterns in java program development, and introduce these faults and bad practices into the target system to construct a scenario closer to reality. Through demonstration with simple examples, we find it possible to emulate many faults by mutation at bytecode level. With this method, fault injection without the source code of target application is enabled to assist dependability benchmark.
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Zheng, Q. (2012). Java Fault Emulation and a Preliminary Fault Injection Framework. In: Jin, D., Lin, S. (eds) Advances in Electronic Commerce, Web Application and Communication. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 149. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28658-2_36
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