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Fault tolerance techniques for coping with the occurrence and effects of anticipated hardware component failures are now well established and form a vital part of any reliable computing system. However, it is more unusual to find that strategies for fault tolerance have been included in a system for coping with design faults, although such strategies are becoming increasingly common in systems with high reliability requirements. For instance, applications in railway systems, nuclear reactor control and aircraft control are reported by Voges.1 Design faults may not have been a problem in hardware systems (or at least not recognized as such) but are of major concern in software systems.
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Lee, P.A., Anderson, T. (1990). Software Fault Tolerance. In: Fault Tolerance. Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerant Systems, vol 3. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8990-0_9
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