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In the preceding chapters testing and debugging were treated as more or less manual processes. The following two chapters deal with these processes as being automatic. Computer systems that are able to recognise an error and take appropriate action are known in the literature as fault-tolerant systems. In recent years a new branch of computer science has been established to deal with the problems associated with fault-tolerant computing (Avizienis, 1978).
Software should be designed to recognize silly situations and not be led astray by them.’
C. R. Spooner (1971) p.8
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© 1976 Carl Hanser Verlag München Wien
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Kopetz, H. (1976). Automatic Error Detection. In: Software Reliability. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86129-3_9
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