An Inquiry into the Stability and Reliability of UNIX Utilities

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  • Brian L. Bowers
  • Karlen Lie
  • Gregory J. Smethells
چکیده

We tested a large set of UNIX utilities under two popular UNIX variants, a GNU/Linux platform and a Solaris platform, for characteristics of stability and reliability. The testing methodology we employed was simple, yet effective − we subjected the utilities to input streams of random characters. Four percent to eleven percent of the utilities we tested failed, either by crashing or by looping infinitely, and were subjected to scrutiny and debugging to determine the cause.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001