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Abstracting the Geniuses Away from Failure Testing.

The article discusses the authors' views about the need for the distributed systems research community to improve the state of the art in fault tolerance testing as of 2018, and it mentions how ordinary users need the tools to automate the selection of custom-tailored faults to inject. Cloud softwar...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 54 - 62
Main Authors: ALVARO, PETER, TYMON, SEVERINE
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jan2018
Subjects:
Fault-tolerant computing
Computer software testing
Distributed computing management
Computer system failures
Computer engineering
Software as a service
Computer users
Computer engineers
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the authors' views about the need for the distributed systems research community to improve the state of the art in fault tolerance testing as of 2018, and it mentions how ordinary users need the tools to automate the selection of custom-tailored faults to inject. Cloud software applications, Chaos Engineering, and computer failures are assessed, along with the Jepsen fault-injection testing technique and the superusers that are known as Chaos Engineers.