A Fault Injection Approach Based on Reflective Programming

Authors:
Eliane Martins;Amanda C. A. Rosa
Affiliations:
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Venue:
DSN '00 Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (formerly FTCS-30 and DCCA-8)
Year:
2000

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach for the validation of OO applications by software-implemented fault injection (SWIFI) that is based on computational reflection. The primary motivation for the use of reflection is that it allows a clear separation between functional aspects and non-functional aspects, the later being related to instrumentation necessary for fault injection and monitoring. Besides separation of concerns, the use of OO programming and reflection is intended to provide more flexibility, extensibility, portability and reusability for the instrumentation features. Ease of use, not only to the instrumentation programmer but also to the user, is also a goal. This paper presents FIRE, a prototyping tool that supports the proposed approach. FIRE was implemented using OpenC++1.2, and it is aimed to validate C++ applications. Preliminary results on the use of FIRE are also presented.