Fault Injection Seminar (2015)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Polze
Daniel Richter
The complexity of modern software systems makes it very hard to predict the consequences of bugs, internal error propagation behaviour, and overall system reliability. However, dependability is gaining importance as the size and pervasiveness of software increases.
Fault injection is a means for experimentally assessing the dependability of software systems. It can be used to test the fault tolerance features by artificially inserting faulty behaviour into the running system.
The technique of fault injection can be implemented in various ways. Fault injectors can be characterized by intrusiveness, coverage, overhead, and trigger mechanism. In this seminar, participants will compare and discuss different software fault injection approaches.
Organization
Extent: 2 semester hours (3 graded credit points)
Dates: Thursday, 13.30 - 15.00
The seminar contains practical and theoretical aspects. Participants are required to read scientific publications on a particular approach to software fault injection. Subsequently, they will either demonstrate the use of an existing fault injector, or build and show an own fault injection prototype.- Each participant is expected to give a 30-45 minute presentation containing a practical demonstration about a fault injection approach.
- Presentation slides should be discussed with a supervisor one week prior to the presentation date.
- At the end of the seminar, we plan to assemble a technical report about your seminar topics.
Topics
- Fault Injection in Managed Code: TestApi
- Fault Injection Patterns in Java: Jaca (1, 2)
- Fault Injection testing of Operating Systems: Ballista (1), CrashMe (2)
- Fault Injection into Libraries: LFI (1)
- Fault Injection using AOP (1)
- Fault Injection in Distributed and Cloud Systems: ChaosMonkey (1)
- GPU Fault Injection: GPU-Qin (1)
Additional topic suggestions are welcome!
Presentation Dates
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 23.04.2015 | Introduction | |
| 30.04.2015 | Topic Conflict Resolution | |
| 07.05.2015 | (Buffer) | |
| 14.05.2015 | Himmelfahrt | |
| 21.05.2015 | Sijing You | Fault Injection into Libraries |
| 28.05.2015 | Angelo Haller | Fault Injection auf System Call Ebene |
| 04.06.2015 | (Buffer) | |
| 11.06.2015 | OpenStack DACH Tag | |
| 18.06.2015 | Annual Symposium on Future Trends in Service-Oriented Computing | |
| 25.06.2015 | Anne Gropler | GPU Fault Injection |
| Lukas Pirl | Fault Injection testing of Operating Systems | |
| 02.07.2015 | HPI/Technion Workshop | |
| 09.07.2015 | Patrick Siegler | Fault Injection in Managed Code, Example Code |
| Sebastian Gerstenberg | Fault Injection Patterns in Java | |
| 16.07.2015 | (Buffer) | |
| 23.07.2015 | (Buffer) | |
Technical Report
Software-FehlerinjektionLena Feinbube, Daniel Richter, Sebastian Gerstenberg, Patrick Siegler, Angelo Haller, Andreas Polze
Technische Berichte Nr. 109 des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Softwaresystemtechnik an der Universität Potsdam
Band 109 (2016), ISBN 978-3-86956-386-2