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A Fault-Tolerant Architectural Approach for Dependable Systems

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Rogerio de Lemos,

Paulo Asterio de Castro Guerra,

Cecilia Mary Fischer RubiraAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Software, Volume 23, Issue 2

Pages 80 - 87

https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2006.35

Published: 01 March 2006 Publication History

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Developers typically address dependability concerns in the late phases of system development. However, two trends are compelling developers to consider dependability earlier, at the architectural level. First, emerging applications are increasingly complex. Second, to address this first trend, developers are increasingly attempting to build dependable systems from existing undependable components. A new architectural approach employs exception handling to represent and analyze fault-tolerant software systems. It partitions architectural elements into normal and exceptional parts, thus promoting a clear separation of concerns regarding how to detect and handle errors.This article is part of a focus section on software architecture.

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A Fault-Tolerant Architectural Approach for Dependable Systems
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Reliability
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Error handling and recovery
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Software reliability
    2. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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March 2006

115 pages

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