Abstract
Software testing is a very important phase in the software development life cycle. The quality and reliability of software are two major concerns of software testing. Developers assume that there are hidden bugs in software products because it is improbable to encounter all error paths of a complex system in a controlled test environment. Software has been an integral part of safety and mission critical systems. Software fault injection can help achieve this criterion. Fault injection involves deliberately inducing faults into software systems to observe their behavior in real time. This helps in identification of dependencies and improves fault tolerance algorithms and mechanisms. Compile time injection is an experimental-based approach to system’s reliability and resilience. This approach requires injecting faults into source code of system under test and examining its behavior during the system’s compilation phase. The goal of the project is to develop a software fault injection tool (C-SWFIT). This tool is capable of injecting faults during the pre-execution phase of a program/software and assessing fault injection effects. This tool is designed to be intuitive and easy to use by software developers looking to test software tolerance and resilience.