BibTeX:

@article{IJIRSTV3I4099,
     title={A literature survey on Improving Fault Tolerance of Software Applications},
     author={S. Veera Pondy, Dr. S. Gavaskar and Dr. A. Sumithra},
     journal={International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology},
     volume={3},
     number={4},
     pages={352--356},
     year={},
     url={http://www.ijirst.org/articles/IJIRSTV3I4099.pdf},
     publisher={IJIRST (International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology)},
}

Adding fault tolerance to any software application is becoming an issue of great significance, especially as these applications support critical parts of our everyday life in the modern “Information Society”. By adding this, the burden of ad hoc fault tolerance programming is removed from the application developer; while at the same time average fault tolerance support taken at operating system level is avoided. Fault-tolerance is achieved by applying a set of analysis and design techniques to create systems with dramatically improved dependability. As new technologies are developed and new applications arise, new fault-tolerance approaches are also needed. In the early days of fault-tolerant computing, it was possible to craft specific hardware and software solutions from the ground up, but now chips contain complex, highly-integrated functions, and hardware and software must be crafted to meet a variety of standards to be economically viable. Thus a great deal of current research focuses on implementing fault tolerance using COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) technology. In this paper we present a survey on fault tolerance provided in variety of ways.

Software fault tolerance, fault-tolerant system, hardware faults, fault recovery, redundant