FIBR-OSS: fault injection model for bug reports in open-source software

Abstract

For assessment of system dependability, fault injection techniques are used to expedite the presence of an error or failure in the system, which helps evaluate fault tolerance and system failure prediction. Defects classification and prediction is the principal significant advance in the trustworthiness evaluation of complex software systems such as open-source software since it can quickly be affected by the reliability of those systems, improves performance, and lessening the product cost. In this context, a new prototype of the fault injection model is presented, FIBR-OSS (fault injection for bug reports in open-source software). FIBR-OSS can support developers to evaluate the system performance during phase's development for its dependability attributes such as reliability and system dependability means such as fault prediction or forecasting. FIBR-OSS is used for fault speed-up to test the system's failure prediction performance. Some machine learning techniques are implemented on bug reports produced existing by the bug tracking system as datasets for failure prediction techniques, some of those machine learning techniques are used in our approach.