Quote: test tolerance to unusual events by fault injections and a test for unsafe or unacceptable outcomes; e.g., change a variable's value

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[Extended propagation analysis] EPA uses the injection of artificial faults--both … EPA does not worry about correctness. Instead, it … EPA takes as its input a program, an … [input] profile, and a description of unsafe or unacceptable outcomes [a predicate of the outputs]. EPA returns … places in the program where it has discovered … [p. 75] A simulated infection occurs when some data … is forced to some new value.   Google-1   Google-2

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