State restoration in Ada 95: a portable approach to supporting software fault tolerance

• Published in: The Journal of systems and software Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 237 - 255
• Main Authors: Rogers, P., Wellings, A.J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Inc 15.03.2000; Elsevier Sequoia S.A
• Subjects: Ada; Fault tolerance; Studies; Systems analysis

Studies indicate that techniques for tolerating hardware faults are so effective that software design errors are the leading cause of all faults encountered. To handle these unanticipated software faults, two main approaches have been proposed: N-version programming and recovery blocks. Both are bas...