Software Engineering Institute

On June 10-11, 1991, a Fault Tolerant Systems Practitioner's Workshop was held at the Software Engineering Institute. The workshop aimed to identify how fault tolerance is being applied today, why fault tolerance is underused, and what can be done to bring fault-tolerant practices into wider use. Attendance at the workshop was limited to a few practitioners who successfully applied fault tolerance in a systems context. This report summarizes the workshop proceedings, which included a discussion of barriers to the deployment of fault tolerant systems, a summary of the state of the practice, and a discussion of the technology needs of fault tolerance. The report concludes with a discussion of ways the Software Engineering Institute may be able to help bring fault-tolerant practices into wider use.