Chapter 4

Model-Driven Engineering of Reliable Fault-Tolerant Systems—A State-of-the-Art Survey

Vidar Slåtten, Peter Herrmann and Frank Alexander Kraemer,      Department of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, vidarsl@item.ntnu.no, herrmann@item.ntnu.no, kraemer@item.ntnu.no

Abstract

To improve the reliability of a system, we can add fault-tolerance mechanisms. This, however, leads to a rise of complexity that increases the probability of software faults being introduced. Hence, unless the process is handled carefully, adding fault tolerance may even lead to a less reliable system. As a way to deal with the inherently high level of complexity of fault-tolerant systems, some research groups have turned ...

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