Software Fault Injection: Innoculating Programs Against Errors by Jeffrey Voas and Gary McGraw Published by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-18381-4 416 pages, 1997 Ordering: Search online stores for the best price

What is Software Fault Injection?
Software development is a peculiar process, half science and half art. Now that software is doing things like controlling airplanes, the artsy part had better be backed by solid engineering practice. Consumers are no longer satisfied with code that mostly works. Fault injection is a useful tool in developing high quality, reliable code. Its ability to reveal how software systems behave under experimentally controlled anomalous circumstances makes it an ideal crystal ball for predicting how badly good software can behave.

This complete, how-to guide to a revolutionary new approach to software analysis gets developers, programmers, and managers up to speed on cutting-edge fault injection techniques. Fault-injection pioneers Jeffrey Voas and Gary McGraw use real-world case studies and code to demonstrate the unique benefits and challenges associated with these techniques. Fault injection is useful in multiple domains including:

• Testing - predicting where faults are most likely to hide
• Safety - simulating failures in real software environments and estimating worst-case scenarios
• Law - predicting the level of liability incurred by a piece of code
• Security - uncovering potential security vulnerabilities during the development cycle
• Reuse - obtaining a more accurate read on crucial maintenance and reuse issues
• Engineering - seamlessly introducing fault-injection into your software process