Fault tolerance via diversity against design faults (tutorial session)
Bev Littlewood, Lorenzo Strigini · 2000
Research results indicate that (as usual in software engineering) these question can only be answered with reference to each specific application context and that diversity is no “silver bullet”. But diversity is an attractive option, made more interesting by current trends like the preference for COTS items, and it is important for practitioners to go beyond the summary opinions and misunderstanding that surround it.