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NetLoiter: A Tool for Automated Testing of Network Applications using Fault-injection
automated testing,network applications,fault-injection,reliability,network problems
The reliability of a network is a crucial requirement for applications and systems such as IoT (Internet-of-Things), cloud-based solutions, client-server, or peer-to-peer architectures. Unfortunately, real networks cannot be assumed to be fault-free, especially when considering various hardware problems, performance issues, or even malicious attacks. Testing network applications should include the evaluation of fault-tolerance of a system under various network conditions. The paper introduces a tool which helps developers and verification&validation practitioners easily analyse their network application's behaviour in unexpected network situations. The tool is based on man-in-the-middle and aims at network nodes communicating using a single network interface. The tool implements a fault-injection method; supported faults and attacks are inspired by the real world, including lossy channels, network jitter, data corruption, or disconnections.
@inproceedings{BUT184416,
author="Aleš {Smrčka} and Michal {Rozsíval}",
title="NetLoiter: A Tool for Automated Testing of Network Applications using Fault-injection",
booktitle="Proceedings - 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops Volume, DSN-W 2023",
year="2023",
pages="207--210",
publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
address="Porto",
doi="10.1109/DSN-W58399.2023.00057",
isbn="979-8-3503-2543-0",
url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10207156"
}