See this document in CiteSeerX!

Software Defects and their Impact on System Availability A Study of Field Failures in Operating Systems (1991)  (Make Corrections)  (59 citations)
Mark Sullivan, Ram Chillarege
21st Int. Symp. on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-21)



  Home/Search   Context   Related

 
View or download:
chillarege.com/auth...odcSullivan91.PDF
chillarege.com/auth...mvsaparftcs21.pdf
Cached:  PS.gz  PS  PDF   Image  Update  Help

From:  chillarege.com/authwork/home (more)
(Enter author homepages)

Rate this article: (best)
  Comment on this article  
(Enter summary)

Abstract: In recent years, software defects have become the dominant cause of customer outage, and improvements in software reliability and quality have not kept pace with those of hardware. Yet, software defects are not well enough understood to provide a clear methodology for avoiding or recovering from them. To gain the necessary insight, we study defects reported between 1986 and 1889 from a on a high-end operating system product. We compare a typical defect (regular) to one that corrupts a program's ... (Update)

Similar documents based on text:   More   All
0.3:   Self-Organizing Overlays - Jain, Mahajan, Niswonger (2000)   (Correct)
0.1:   Strength, Durability and Health Monitoring of.. - Giurgiutiu.. (1998)   (Correct)
0.1:   An Analysis of Calibration and Registration Errors.. - King, Edwards..   (Correct)

Related documents from co-citation:   More   All
17:   and Software Fault Tolerance in the Tandem GUARDIAN Operating System (context) - Lee, Iyer et al. - 1993
14:   A Census of Tandem System Availability Between (context) - Gray
12:   A comparison of software defects in database management systems and operating sy.. (context) - Sullivan, Chillarege - 1992

BibTeX entry:   (Update)

M. Sullivan and R. Chillarege. Software defects and their impact on system availability --- a study of field failures in operating systems. Digest 21st International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, June 1991. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/sullivan91software.html   More

@article{ sullivan91software,
    author = "M. Sullivan and R. Chillarege",
    title = "Software defects and their impact on system availability - a study of field failures in operating systems",
    journal = "21st Int. Symp. on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-21)",
    publisher = "IEEE Computer Society Press",
    address = "Montreal, Que., Canada",
    pages = "2--9",
    year = "1991",
    url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/sullivan91software.html" }
Citations (may not include all citations):
67   FIAT -- Fault Injection Based Automated Testing Environment (context) - Segall, Vrsalovic - 1988
59   Software Errors and Complexity: An Empirical Investigation (context) - Basili, Erricone - 1984
53   Understanding Large System Failure -- A Fault Injection Expe.. (context) - Chillarege, Bowen - 1989
26   Fault Injection for Dependability Validation of Fault-Tolera.. (context) - Arlat, Crouzet et al. - 1989
21   An Analysis of Errors and Their Causes in Systems Programs (context) - Endres - 1975
12   Bootstrap Methods for Standard Errors (context) - Efron, Tibshirani - 1986
7   the Reliability of the IBM MVS/XA Operating System (context) - Mourad, Andrews - 1987
6   Persistent Software Errors (context) - Glass - 1981
5   Defect Type and its Impact on the Growth Curve (context) - Chillarege, Kao et al. - 1991
2   Performance and Reliability of Digital Computing Systems (context) - Castillo, Siewiorek - 1981
2   TRW and North-Holland Publishing Company (context) - Thayer, Lipow et al. - 1978
1   Hsueh Measurement and Modeling of Computer Reliabiltiy as Af.. (context) - Iyer, Rossetti - 1986
1   Defects and Reliabilty Analysis of Large Software Systems: F.. (context) - Levendel - 1989



The graph only includes citing articles where the year of publication is known.


Documents on the same site (http://www.chillarege.com/authwork/home.html):   More
Software Recreate Problems Estimated to Range 10-20.. - Chillarege, Ray..   (Correct)
Generation of an Error Set that Emulates Software.. - Christmansson.. (1996)   (Correct)

Online articles have much greater impact   More about CiteSeer.IST   Add search form to your site   Submit documents   Feedback  

CiteSeer.IST - Copyright Penn State and NEC