The Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Testing and Fault Tolerance (WTF 2003) bring the papers selected and presented in the edition of the event held in Natal/RN, Brazil, on May 19, 2003, as part of the 21st Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks (SBRC 2003). In this issue, the proceedings include 8 full papers. These papers were selected through a blind review, from a total of 15 papers submitted, which implied an acceptance rate of 53%. The event was organized by The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and The Potiguar University (UnP). The General Chairs were Francisco Vilar Brasileiro (UFCG) and Walfredo Cirne (UFCG), who organized this volume. The articles in this volume were submitted on 03/17/2003, accepted for publication on 04/17/2003, with the final version submitted on 04/24/2003.
The WTF is promoted by the Special Commission on Fault Tolerant Systems (CE-TF) of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC).
The historical rescue of this edition, including the recovery of the files and the acquisition of the metadata, was carried out by Prof. Luiz Antonio Rodrigues (Unioeste) with special assistance from Prof. Elias P. Duarte Jr. (UFPR).
The tutorials presented at the event are available at the website of the CE-TF.
You can find more information about WTF 2003 by visiting the website of the event (archive) or the website of the CE-TF.
