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Software Fault Injection: Inoculating Programs Against Errors

by Jeffrey M. Voas (Author), Gary McGraw (Author)
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This book is the first to describe the unique benefits and challenges associated with fault injection methods. Using real world case-studies and applications data, the authors explain fault injection to the programmer and the developer. CD-ROM includes demo versions of fault injection tools and some basic algorithms for the reader to customize.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0471183814
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0471183815
  3. Publisher
    John Wiley & Sons Inc
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1998
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    8 x 1 x 9.75 inches
  7. Print length
    353 pages
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This book is the first to describe the unique benefits and challenges associated with fault injection methods. Using real world case-studies and applications data, the authors explain fault injection to the programmer and the developer. CD-ROM includes demo versions of fault injection tools and some basic algorithms for the reader to customize.

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Software Development

"The next wave in the rapidly advancing field of software quality assurance." --Barry Preppernau Test Training Manager Microsoft Technical Education

A complete, practical guide to a revolutionary new approach in software assurance.

Software development is a peculiar process, half science, half art. Now that software is doing things like controlling airplanes and bank accounts, the artsy part had better be backed by solid engineering practice. Consumers are no longer satisfied by code that mostly works. Fault injection is a useful tool in developing high-quality, reliable code. Its ability to reveal how software systems behave under experimentally controlled anomalous circumstances makes it an ideal crystal ball for predicting how badly good software can behave.

This complete, how-to guide to a revolutionary new approach to software analysis gets developers, programmers, and managers up to speed on cutting-edge fault injection techniques. Fault-injection pioneers Jeffrey Voas and Gary McGraw use real-world case studies and code to demonstrate the unique benefits and challenges associated with these techniques. Fault injection is useful in multiple domains including:
* Testing--predicting where faults are most likely to hide
* Safety--simulating failures in real software environments and estimating worst-case scenarios
* Law--predicting the level of liability incurred by a piece of code
* Security--uncovering potential security vulnerabilities during the development cycle
* Reuse--obtaining a more accurate read on crucial maintenance and reuse issues
* Engineering--seamlessly introducing fault-injection methods into your software process.

The authors also offer insights and tips on a wide range of timely issues, including CORBA, Y2K, software liability and certification, information warfare, and more.

On the CD-ROM you'll find:
* The SafetyNet(TM) fault injection tool
* An HTML tutorial on SafetyNet(TM)
* Mothra, a software mutation tool.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Wiley & Sons Inc (January 1, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 353 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0471183814
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0471183815
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.95 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 1 x 9.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

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    Gary McGraw is co-founder of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning. He is a globally recognized authority on software security and the author of eight best selling books on this topic. His titles include Software Security, Exploiting Software, Building Secure Software, Java Security, Exploiting Online Games, and 6 other books; and he is editor of the Addison-Wesley Software Security series. Dr. McGraw has also written over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications. Gary serves on the Advisory Boards of Maxmyinterest, NTrepid, Ravenwhite, and Secure Code Warrior. He has also served as a Board member of Cigital and Codiscope (acquired by Synopsys) and as Advisor to Black Duck (acquired by Synopsys), Dasient (acquired by Twitter), Fortify Software (acquired by HP), and Invotas (acquired by FireEye). Gary produced the monthly Silver Bullet Security Podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine for thirteen years. His dual PhD is in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University where he serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering.

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Mr. T
3.0 out of 5 stars overall a little bit disappointed since I did not learn anything new from it
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2016
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Expected a little bit more from this book, overall a little bit disappointed since I did not learn anything new from it.
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talkaboutquality
4.0 out of 5 stars Software should fail early and often ... before you release it
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2010
Voas and McGraw make the case that, to produce reliable software, validation (usually applied as dynamic - or run-time -- testing), is more effective than process. That alone is nothing new -- many software development organizations invest much more in testing than in process improvement. But Software Fault Injection goes further: instead of more and more testing which always seems to miss the failures that the end user seems to find so easily, create those failures. Even (temporarily) create the defects that will cause those failures to happen. Sound strange? It is, but no stranger than what this book explains how to do -- as in the subtitle -- Inoculating Programs Against Errors. The idea is to produce modified, selectively defective copies of the software under test and see how the rest of the system handles the failures that now happen "in the lab" rather than in the field. It works with medical research and produces vaccines. If you're tired of the cycle of code, test, launch, surprise crash in the field, consider whether software failure injection might help.

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Full disclosure: I only had time to read the first 10% of the book before I had to move on to other topics. But if and when I come back to software reliability improvement, this is a book I'll pick up again.
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