FIRMI: Um Injetor de Falhas para a Avaliação de Aplicações Distribuídas baseadas em RMI

• Juliano C. Vacaro UFRGS
• Taisy S. Weber UFRGS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wtf.2006.23358

Abstract

In the test phase dependable distributed applications based on RMI have to demonstrate they work correctly even in the presence of faults in the communication subsystem. Exceptions thrown by RMI in response to communication faults must be caught and handled by the application. In order to generate such exceptions and thus testing the error-handling strategies of the application, faults are injected during the test phase and the behavior of the system under these faults is observed. This paper presents a fault injector to evaluate applications that use RMI as base for their communication subsystem. It also shows the techniques used and demonstrate through an experiment the features of the tool.

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