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Toward an Object-Oriented Approach to Software Fault Tolerance

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Brian RandellORCiD, Dr Robert Stroud

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Abstract

Software fault tolerance is often necessary, but can itself be dangerously error-prone because of the additional effort that must be involved in the programming process. The additional redundancy may increase size and complexity and thus adversely affect software reliability. Object-oriented programming provides an appropriate framework for controlling complexity and enforcing reliability. However, software fault tolerance cannot be achieved merely by implementing the classical fault-tolerance schemes in an object-oriented fashion. New problems arise while integrating software redundancy into object-oriented computing systems. This paper identifies a set of such problems, addresses possible solutions, and proposes an object-oriented architecture for dealing with software design faults. Both linguistic supports for the architecture and implementation issues are discussed in detail.

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Author(s): Xu J, Randell B, Rubira CMF, Stroud RJ

Editor(s): Avresky, D.R.

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems

Year of Conference: 1994

Pages: 226-233

Publisher: IEEE Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FTPDS.1994.494494

DOI: 10.1109/FTPDS.1994.494494

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ISBN: 079238069X

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