Application fault injector

NASA Tech Briefs, Aug 2002

Application Fault Injector (AFI) is a simple computer program for testing the fault tolerance of other programs. AFI is a library of subroutines designed to inject faults into memory, data structures, and registers. The library is modular, can easily be extended, and can easily be ported to different computer hardware architectures. AM is not designed to run fault-injection campaigns on complete application programs: instead, it is designed to test fault-tolerant algorithms, subroutines, and data structures. AFI is easy to use. The application programmer has complete control of fault injection.

This program was written by Thomas Wolfe of Caltech for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For further information, access the Technical Support Package (TSP) free on-line at www.nasatech.com/tsp under the Software category.

This software is available for commercial licensing. Please contact Don Hart of the California Institute of Technology at (818) 393-- 3425. Refer to NPO-30344.