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The limitations posed by fault tolerance applied to software have stimulated the study of different solutions permitting to overcome such problems; functional diversity seems to be one of the most promising ideas in this field. The study of this methodology and of its implications on the development process and the final product constitutes the preliminary step to a deeper study of its impact on the global software system reliability.
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Burlando, P., Gianetto, L., Mainini, M.T. (1992). Functional Diversity. In: Kersken, M., Saglietti, F. (eds) Software Fault Tolerance. Research Reports ESPRIT, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84725-7_5
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