The Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Testing and Fault Tolerance (WTF 2002) bring the papers selected and presented in the edition of the event held in Búzios/RJ, Brazil, on May 21, 2002, as part of the 20th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks (SBRC 2002). In this issue, the proceedings include 12 full papers and 3 extended abstracts. These papers were selected through a blind review, from a total of 17 papers submitted, which implied an acceptance rate of 88%. The event was organized by The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The General Chair was Prof. Avelino Zorzo (PUCRS), who organized this volume. The articles in this volume were submitted on 03/01/2002, accepted for publication on 03/28/2002, with the final version submitted on 04/08/2002.
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).
You can find more information about WTF 2002 by visiting the website of the event or the website of the CE-TF.
