Quote: tested reliability under system crash by injecting faults; random bit flips in kernel; imitate programming errors such as pointer corruption, copy overrun, off-by-one; most crashes happened within 15 seconds

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Unless otherwise stated, we inject 20 faults for … [system crash] will be triggered. Most crashes occurred within 15 seconds after … discard the run and report the system; this … The first category of [injected] faults flips random … [refs.] … The second category of fault changes individual instructions … [p.77] The last and most extensive category of … [ref.] [For example, initialization faults, pointer corruption, memory allocation faults, copy overrun faults, off- by-one errors, and synchronization faults.] … Fault injection cannot mimic the exact behavior of … random nature of the faults, the large number … kernel consistency error messages), and the sheer number … real-world crashes.   Google-1   Google-2

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