# Exhaustive Exploration of the Failure-oblivious Computing Search Space

Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification, Main track (ICST'18)

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# Abstract

High-availability of software systems requires automated handling of crashes in presence of errors. Failure-oblivious computing is one technique that aims to achieve high availability. We note that failure-obliviousness has not been studied in depth yet, and there is very few study that helps understand why failure-oblivious techniques work. In order to make failure-oblivious computing to have an impact in practice, we need to deeply understand failure-oblivious behaviors in software. In this paper, we study, design and perform an experiment that analyzes the size and the diversity of the failure-oblivious behaviors. Our experiment consists of exhaustively computing the search space of 16 field failures of large-scale open-source Java software. The outcome of this experiment is a much better understanding of what really happens when failure-oblivious computing is used, and this opens new promising research directions.

@inproceedings{durieux2017exhaustive,
author = {Durieux, Thomas and Hamadi, Youssef and Yu, Zhongxing and Monperrus, Martin},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST)},
organization = {IEEE},
title = {Exhaustive Exploration of the Failure-oblivious Computing Search Space},
year = {2018}
}