“Bond”: An Agents-Based Fault Injector for Windows NT
Andrea Baldini, Alfredo Benso, P. Prinetto · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2005
The goal of this chapter is to present BOND, a Software Fault Injection tool able to simulate abnormal behavior of a computer system running Windows NT 4.0/2000 Operating System. The Fault Injector is based on interposition techniques, which guarantees a low impact on the execution of the target program, and allows the injection of Commercial off-the-Shelf software programs. BOND allows performing both statistical and deterministic Fault Injection experiments, trading-off between overhead and precision of the obtained results. Moreover, the tool is capable of injecting faults into different locations, at any level of the application context (code and data sections, stack, heap, processor’s registers, system calls...). A complete set of experimental results on different application programs demonstrates the effectiveness and the flexibility of the tool. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.