Performance Evaluation of Exception Handling in I/O Libraries
DSN '01 Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (formerly: FTCS)
Component airbag: a novel approach to develop dependable component-based applications
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Component airbag: a novel approach to develop dependable component-based applications
The 6th Joint Meeting on European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on the foundations of software engineering: companion papers
A systematic review of software robustness
Information and Software Technology
Error propagation monitoring on windows mobile-based devices
LADC'07 Proceedings of the Third Latin-American conference on Dependable Computing
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Although Microsoft Windows is being deployed in mission-critical applications, little quantitative data has been published about its robustness. We present the results of executing over two million Ballista-generated exception handling tests across 237 functions and system calls involving six Windows variants, as well as similar tests conducted on the Linux operating system. Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows CE were found to be vulnerable to complete system crashes caused by very simple C programs for several different functions. No system crashes were observed on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Linux. Linux was significantly more graceful at handling exceptions from system calls in a program-recoverable manner than Windows NT and Windows 2000, but those Windows variants were more robust than Linux (with glibc) at handling C library exceptions. While the choice of operating systems cannot be made solely based on one set of tests, it is hoped that such results will form a starting point for comparing dependability across heterogeneous platforms.