Journal papers


Multi-Provider IMS Infrastructure with Controlled Redundancy: A Performability Evaluation

L. De Simone, M. Di Mauro, M. Longo, R. Natella, F. Postiglione
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, PrePrint
Published version


Who Evaluates the Evaluators? On Automatic Metrics for Assessing AI-based Offensive Code Generators

P. Liguori, C. Improta, R. Natella, B. Cukic, D. Cotroneo
Expert Systems with Applications, to appear
Published version Pre-print version


Run-time failure detection via non-intrusive event analysis in a large-scale cloud computing platform

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, P. Liguori, R. Natella
Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 198, April 2023
Published version Pre-print version


StateAFL: Greybox fuzzing for stateful network servers

R. Natella
Empirical Software Engineering, 27, no. 191, October 2022
Published version Pre-print version


A Latency-driven Availability Assessment for Multi-Tenant Service Chains

L. De Simone, M. Di Mauro, R. Natella, F. Postiglione
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Vol. 16, Issue 2, March-April 2023
Published version Pre-print version


Can We Generate Shellcodes via Natural Language? An Empirical Study

P. Liguori, E. Al-Hossami, D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, B. Cukic, S. Shaikh
Automated Software Engineering journal, vol. 29, 2022
Published version Pre-print version


ThorFI: a Novel Approach for Network Fault Injection as a Service

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, R. Natella
Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 201, May 2022
Published version Pre-print version


Software Micro-Rejuvenation for Android Mobile Systems

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono, S. Russo
Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 186, April 2022
Published version Pre-print version


Enhancing the Analysis of Software Failures in Cloud Computing Systems with Deep Learning

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, P. Liguori, R. Natella
Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 181, November 2021
Published version Pre-print version


Timing covert channel analysis of the VxWorks MILS embedded hypervisor under the common criteria security certification

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, R. Natella
Computers and Security, Volume 106, 2021
Published version Pre-print version


Fault Injection Analytics: A Novel Approach to Discover Failure Modes in Cloud-Computing Systems

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, P. Liguori, R. Natella
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Volume 19, Issue 3, 01 May-June 2022
Published version Pre-print version


A comprehensive study on software aging across android versions and vendors

D. Cotroneo, A.K. Iannillo, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono
Empirical Software Engineering, July 2020, Volume 25, pp. 3357--3395
Published version Pre-print version


Dependability Assessment of the Android OS through Fault Injection

D. Cotroneo, A.K. Iannillo, R. Natella, S. Rosiello
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Volume 70, Issue 1, March 2021
Published version Pre-print version


Evolutionary Fuzzing of Android OS Vendor System Services

D. Cotroneo, A.K. Iannillo, R. Natella
Empirical Software Engineering, December 2019, Volume 24, Issue 6, pp. 3630--3658
Link to tool source code: GitHub
Published version Pre-print version


Overload control for virtual network functions under CPU contention

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, S. Rosiello
Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 99, Oct. 2019, pp. 164-176
Published version Pre-print version


Analyzing the Effects of Bugs on Software Interfaces

R. Natella, S. Winter, D. Cotroneo, N. Suri
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 280--301, 2020
Published version Pre-print version


Run-Time Detection of Protocol Bugs in Storage I/O Device Drivers

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, R. Natella
IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR), Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 847--869, 2018
Published version Pre-print version


NFV-Bench: A Dependability Benchmark for Network Function Virtualization Systems

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, R. Natella
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 934--948, 2017
Published version Pre-print version


NFV-Throttle: An Overload Control Framework for Network Function Virtualization

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, S. Rosiello
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 949--963, 2017
Published version Pre-print version


Assessing Dependability with Software Fault Injection: A Survey

R. Natella, D. Cotroneo, H. Madeira
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol. 48, No. 3, pages 44:1--44:55, 2016
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Faultprog: Testing the Accuracy of Binary-Level Software Fault Injection

D. Cotroneo, A. Lanzaro, R. Natella
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 40-53, Jan.-Feb.2018
Published version Pre-print version


Recovery From Software Failures Caused by Mandelbugs

M. Grottke, D.S. Kim, R. Mansharamani, M. Nambiar, R. Natella, K.S. Trivedi
IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR), Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 70-87, March 2016
Impact Factor: 1.934
Published version Pre-print version


Fault Injection for Software Certification

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella
IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 38-45, July/August 2013
Impact Factor: 0.962
Published version Pre-print version


A Survey of Software Aging and Rejuvenation Studies

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono, S. Russo
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2014
Impact Factor: 0.867
Published version Pre-print version


Predicting Aging-Related Bugs using Software Complexity Metrics

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono
Performance Evaluation (PEVA), Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 163-178, 2013
Impact Factor: 1.168
Published version Pre-print version


On Fault Representativeness of Software Fault Injection

R. Natella, D. Cotroneo, J. Duraes, H. Madeira
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 80-96, 2013
Impact Factor: 2.216
Published version Pre-print version


OS-Level Hang Detection in Complex Software Systems

A. Bovenzi, G. Carrozza, M. Cinque, D. Cotroneo, R. Natella
International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems (IJCCBS), Vol. 2, No. 3/4, pp. 352-377, 2011
Inderscience media release
Published version Pre-print version


A Recovery-Oriented Approach for Software Fault Diagnosis in Complex Critical Systems

G. Carrozza, R. Natella
International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 77-104, 2011
Published version Pre-print version


Memory leak analysis of mission-critical middleware

G. Carrozza, D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, A. Pecchia, S. Russo
The Journal of Systems & Software 83 (JSS), pp. 1556-1567, 2010
Impact Factor: 1.340
Published version Pre-print version





Conference papers


Automatic mapping of unstructured Cyber Threat Intelligence: An experimental study

V. Orbinato, M. Barbaraci, R. Natella, and D. Cotroneo
Proc. 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2022)
October 2022, Charlotte, NC, USA
Link to dataset and source code: https://github.com/dessertlab/cti-to-mitre-with-nlp
Pre-print version


SlowCoach: Mutating Code to Simulate Performance Bugs

Y. Chen, O. Schwahn, R. Natella, M. Bradbury, N. Suri
Proc. 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2022)
October 2022, Charlotte, NC, USA
Link to dataset and source code: https://github.com/61OlkVq8/PMT
Pre-print version


Performability assessment of containerized multi-tenant IMS through multidimensional UGF

L. De Simone, M. Di Mauro, M. Longo, R. Natella, and F. Postiglione
Proc. 18th IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2022),
October 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece


EVIL: Exploiting Software via Natural Language

P. Liguori, E. Al-Hossami, V. Orbinato, R. Natella, S. Shaikh, D. Cotroneo, B. Cukic
Proc. 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2021)
October 2021, Wuhan, China
Link to dataset and source code: https://github.com/dessertlab/EVIL
Published version Pre-print version


Dependability Evaluation of Middleware Technology for Large-scale Distributed Caching

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, S. Rosiello
Proc. 31th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2020)
October 2020, Coimbra, Portugal
Published version Pre-print version


ProFIPy: Programmable Software Fault Injection as-a-Service

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, P. Liguori, R. Natella
Proc. 50th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2020)
June-July 2020, Valencia, Spain
Acceptance rate: 16.5% (48/291)
Published version Pre-print version


Analyzing the Context of Bug-Fixing Changes in the OpenStack Cloud Computing Platform

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, A.K. Iannillo, R. Natella, S. Rosiello, N. Bidokhti
Proc. 30th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2019)
October 2019, Berlin, Germany
Published version Pre-print version


Enhancing Failure Propagation Analysis in Cloud Computing Systems

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, P. Liguori, R. Natella, N. Bidokhti
Proc. 30th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2019)
October 2019, Berlin, Germany
Published version Pre-print version


How Bad Can a Bug Get? An Empirical Analysis of Software Failures in the OpenStack Cloud Computing Platform

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, P. Liguori, R. Natella, N. Bidokhti
Proc. 27th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software (ESEC/FSE 2019)
Tallin, Estonia, August 2019
Published version Pre-print version


Chizpurfle: A Gray-Box Android Fuzzer for Vendor Service Customizations

A.K. Iannillo, R. Natella, D. Cotroneo, C. Nita-Rotaru
Proc. 28th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2017)
October 2017, Toulouse, France
Best Research Paper Award
Published version Pre-print version


A fault correlation approach to detect performance anomalies in Virtual Network Function chains

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, S. Rosiello
Proc. 28th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2017)
October 2017, Toulouse, France
Published version Pre-print version


Software Aging Analysis of the Android Mobile OS

D. Cotroneo, F. Fucci, A.K. Iannillo, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono
Proc. 27th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2016)
October 2016, Ottawa, Canada
Published version Pre-print version


Prediction of the Testing Effort for the Safety Certification of Open-Source Software: A Case Study on a Real-Time Operating System

D. Cotroneo, D. Di Leo, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono
Proc. 12th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC 2016)
September 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden
Published version Pre-print version


MoIO: Run-Time Monitoring for I/O Protocol Violations in Storage Device Drivers

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, F. Fucci, R. Natella
Proc. 26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015)
November 2015, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Published version Pre-print version


Dependability Evaluation and Benchmarking of Network Function Virtualization Infrastructures

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, A.K. Iannillo, A. Lanzaro, R. Natella
Proc. 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2015)
April 2015, London, UK
Acceptance rate: 15.7%
Best Paper Award
Published version Pre-print version


No PAIN, No Gain? The utility of PArallel fault INjections

S. Winter, O. Schwahn, R. Natella, N. Suri, D. Cotroneo
Proc. 37th International ACM/IEEE Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015)
May 2015, Florence, Italy
Acceptance rate: 18.5%
Published version Pre-print version


An Empirical Study of Injected versus Actual Interface Errors

A. Lanzaro, R. Natella, S. Winter, D. Cotroneo, N. Suri
Proc. ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2014)
July 2014, San Jose, California, USA
Acceptance rate: 28.1%
Published version Pre-print version


Network Function Virtualization: Challenges and Directions for Reliability Assurance

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, A.K. Iannillo, A. Lanzaro, R. Natella, J. Fan, W. Ping
Industry Track at the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
November 2014, Naples, Italy
Published version Pre-print version


State-Driven Testing of Distributed Systems

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, S. Russo, F. Scippacercola
Proc. 17th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2013)
December 2013, Nice, France
Published version Pre-print version


SABRINE: StAte-Based Robustness testIng of operatiNg systEms

D. Cotroneo, D. Di Leo, F. Fucci, R. Natella
Proc. 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2013)
November 2013, Palo Alto, California, USA
Acceptance rate: 16.9%
Published version Pre-print version


Fault Triggers in Open-Source Software: An Experience Report

D. Cotroneo, M. Grottke, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono, K.S. Trivedi
24th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2013)
November 2013, Pasadena, California, USA
Acceptance rate: 35.1%
Published version Pre-print version


Analysis and Prediction of Mandelbugs in an Industrial Software System

G. Carrozza, D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono, S. Russo
2013 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), pp. 262-271
March 2013, Luxembourg
Published version Pre-print version


Towards a State-driven Workload Generation Framework for Dependability Assessment

D. Cotroneo, F. Fucci, R. Natella
Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Dependability (DEPEND)
May 2012, Rome, Italy
Best paper award
Published version Pre-print version


Experimental Analysis of Binary-Level Software Fault Injection in Complex Software

D. Cotroneo, A. Lanzaro, R. Natella, R. Barbosa
Proc. of the 9th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC)
August 2012, Sibiu, Romania
Acceptance Rate: 35%
Best presentation award
Published version Pre-print version


A Case Study on State-Based Robustness Testing of an Operating System for the Avionic Domain

D. Cotroneo, D. Di Leo, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono
Proc. of the 30th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP),
September 2011, Naples, Italy
Published version Pre-print version


Software Aging Analysis of the Linux Operating System

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono, S. Russo
Proc. of the 21th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE),
November 2010, San Jose, California, USA
Acceptance Rate: 32.3%
Published version Pre-print version


Representativeness Analysis of Injected Software Faults in Complex Software

R. Natella, D. Cotroneo, J. Duraes, H. Madeira
Proc. of the 40th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN),
June 2010, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Acceptance Rate: 25% (PDS Track)
Published version Pre-print version


Assessing and Improving the Effectiveness of Logs for the Analysis of Software Faults

M. Cinque, D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, A. Pecchia
Proc. of the 40th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN),
June 2010, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Acceptance Rate: 25% (PDS Track)
Published version Pre-print version


Emulation of Transient Software Faults for Dependability Assessment: A Case Study

R. Natella, D. Cotroneo
Proceedings of the 8th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC),
April 2010, Valencia, Spain
Acceptance Rate: 32%
Published version Pre-print version


Assessment and Improvement of Hang Detection in the Linux Operating System

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, S. Russo
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS),
September 2009, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Acceptance Rate: 28%
Published version Pre-print version





Short papers (workshops, tool papers, etc.)


Federated and generative data sharing for data-driven security: Challenges and approach

R. Natella, A. Ceccarelli, M. Ficco
IEEE 20th International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN 2022)

Published version


On temporal isolation assessment in virtualized railway signaling as a service systems

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, and R. Natella
IEEE 20th International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN 2022)

Published version Pre-print version


Can NMT understand me? Towards perturbation-based evaluation of NMT models for code generation

P. Liguori, C. Improta, S. De Vivo, R. Natella, B. Cukic, and D. Cotroneo
IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Natural Language-Based Software Engineering (NLBSE 2022), co-located with ICSE 2022

Published version Pre-print version


ProFuzzBench: A benchmark for stateful protocol fuzzing

R. Natella and V.-T. Pham
30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2021), Tool Demo

Published version Pre-print version


Shellcode_IA32: A Dataset for Automatic Shellcode Generation

P. Liguori, E. Al-Hossami, D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, B. Cukic, and S. Shaikh
1st ACL Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Programming (NLP4Prog 2021), pp. 58–64, 2021

Published version Pre-print version


Steady-State Availability Evaluation of Multi-Tenant Service Chains

L. De Simone, M. Di Mauro, R. Natella, and F. Postiglione
31st European Safety and Reliability Conference

Published version


Towards Runtime Verification via Event Stream Processing in Cloud Computing Infrastructures

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, P. Liguori, R. Natella, A. Scibelli
1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOPS 2020)
Held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC),
December 2020, Dubai, UAE
Published version Pre-print version


A Configurable Software Aging Detection and Rejuvenation Agent for Android

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono, S. Russo
11th Intl. Workshop of Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR)
Held in conjunction with the 30th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE),
October 2019, Berlin, Germany
Published version Pre-print version


FailViz: A Tool for Visualizing Fault Injection Experiments in Distributed Systems

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, P. Liguori, R. Natella, N. Bidokhti
Tool paper - 15th IEEE European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC)
September 2019, Naples, Italy
Published version Pre-print version


Dependability Certification Guidelines for NFVIs through Fault Injection

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, R. Natella
8th Intl. Workshop of Software Certification (WoSoCer)
Held in conjunction with the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
October 2018, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Published version Pre-print version


Enhancing the Analysis of Error Propagation and Failure Modes in Cloud Systems

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, A. Di Martino, P. Liguori, R. Natella
Fast Abstracts track - 29th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
October 2018, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Published version Pre-print version


Advancing Fault Injection and Dependability Evaluation in the Software-Driven Telecom Industry

R. Natella
Invited talk - 13th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) – Industry Day
September 2017, Geneve, Switzerland
Published version Pre-print version


AndroDepLog: A Tool to Enable Live Dependability Measurement of Android Devices

M. Cinque, R. Natella
2016 Mobile Systems Technologies Workshop: Architecture, Technology Trends, and Memory Solutions (MST)
September 2016, Milan, Italy
Published version Pre-print version


The Software Aging and Rejuvenation Repository

D. Cotroneo, A.K. Iannillo, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono, S. Russo
7th Intl. Workshop of Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR)
Held in conjunction with the 26h IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE),
November 2015, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Published version Pre-print version


Grinder: On reusability of fault injection tools

S. Winter, T. Piper, O. Schwahn, R. Natella, N. Suri, and D. Cotroneo
IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST), pp. 75-79, 2015
Held in conjunction with the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Published version


Error models for the representative injection of software defects

A. Lanzaro, R. Natella, S. Winter, D. Cotroneo, and N. Suri
Software-Engineering and Management 2015


Improving Usability of Fault Injection

D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, A.K. Iannillo, A. Lanzaro, R. Natella
Fourth Intl. Workshop of Software Certification (WoSoCer)
Held in conjunction with the 25h IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE),
November 2014, Naples, Italy
Published version Pre-print version


Towards Patching Memory Leak Bugs in Off-The-Shelf Software

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella
Sixth Intl. Workshop of Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR)
Held in conjunction with the 25h IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE),
November 2014, Naples, Italy
Published version Pre-print version


Performance Degradation Analysis of a Supercomputer

D. Cotroneo, F. Frattini, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono
Fifth International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR)
Held in conjunction with the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE),
November 2013, Pasadena, California, USA
Published version Pre-print version


Issues and Ongoing Work on State-Driven Workload Generation for Distributed Systems

R. Natella, F. Scippacercola
14th European Workshop on Dependable Computing (EWDC), Lecture Notes on Computer Science 7869, pp. 96-110
May 2013, Coimbra, Portugal
Published version Pre-print version


Monitoring of Aging Software Systems affected by Integer Overflows

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella
Fourth International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR)
Held in conjunction with the 23th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE),
November 2012, Dallas, Texas, USA
Published version Pre-print version


Software Aging and Rejuvenation: Where we are and where we are going

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono, S. Russo
Third International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR)
Held in conjunction with the 22th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE),
November-December 2011, Hiroshima, Japan
Published version Pre-print version


Is Software Aging related to Software Metrics?

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, R. Pietrantuono
Second International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR)
Held in conjunction with the 21th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE),
November 2010, San Jose, California, USA
Published version Pre-print version


Adaptive Monitoring in Microkernel OSs

D. Cotroneo, D. Di Leo, R. Natella
DSN Workshop on Proactive Failure Avoidance, Recovery and Maintenance (PFARM),
Proc. of the 40th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W)
June 2010, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Published version Pre-print version


Improving FFDA of Web Servers through a Rule-Based Logging Approach

M. Cinque, R. Natella, A. Pecchia, S. Russo
First International Workshop on Field Failure Data Analysis (FD2A),
Held in conjunction with the 28th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)
September 2009, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Published version Pre-print version


An Approach for Assessing Logs by Software Fault Injection

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, A. Pecchia, S. Russo
DSN Workshop on Proactive Failure Avoidance, Recovery and Maintenance (PFARM),
Suppl. Vol. of the 39th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
June 2009, Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal
Published version Pre-print version


An Experiment in Memory Leak Analysis with a Mission-Critical Middleware for Air Traffic Control

G. Carrozza, D. Cotroneo, R. Natella, A. Pecchia, S. Russo
First International Workshop of Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR),
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSRE Wksp)
November 2008, Seattle/Redmond, WA, USA
Published version Pre-print version


Operating System Support to Detect Application Hangs

D. Cotroneo, M. Cinque, G. Carrozza, R. Natella
Second International Workshop on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (VECoS),
July 2008, Leeds, UK
Selected as one of the best VECoS papers presented in the first 4 editions
Published version Pre-print version


Journal editorials


Special section on: Reliability and Safety Certification of Software-Intensive Systems

B. Gallina and R. Natella
Reliability Engineering & System Safety (Elsevier), Vol. 158, February 2017, pp. 152-253
Editorial





Book chapters


Tools for Injecting Software Faults at the Binary and Source-Code Level

A. Lanzaro, R. Natella, R. Barbosa
In "Innovative Technologies for Dependable OTS-Based Critical Systems - Challenges and Achievements of the CRITICAL STEP Project", D. Cotroneo ed., pp. 85-100, 2013
Published version


Fault Injection e Robustness Testing

D. Cotroneo, R. Natella
In "L'Analisi Quantitativa dei Sistemi Critici" (in Italian), A. Bondavalli ed., pp. 233-270, 2011
Published version





Patents


Metodo di Iniezione Guasti e Relativo Sistema

A novel method and related system for injecting faults into a software application using a Domain Specific Language (DSL)

Italian Patent for Industrial Invention
Patent number: 102019000019807
Owners: R. Natella, D. Cotroneo
Inventors: R. Natella, D. Cotroneo, L. De Simone, S. Rosiello, N. Bidokhti
Date of filing: October 25, 2019
Date of patent: October 27, 2021
Patent Office





PhD thesis


Achieving Representative Faultloads in Software Fault Injection

R. Natella
Federico II University of Naples, 2011
Advisors: D. Cotroneo, H. Madeira
Published version Local version





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