Este glossário resume as definições fornecidas ao longo do documento /Laprie 1992/. Ele é providenciado como suporte para a leitura do documento, e não deve ser considerado isoladamente.
Accidental fault
Active fault
Arbitrary failure
Atomic system
Attributes of dependability
Availability
Avoidance (fault~)
Backward recovery
Behaviour (system~)
Benign failure
Catastrophic failure
Coincident errors
Common-mode failures
Compensation (error~)
Component (system~)
Conformance testing
Consistent failure
Correct service
Corrective maintenance
Coverage
Crash failure
Criticality (system~)
Curative maintainance
Dependability
Design fault
Design for verifiability
Detection (~error)
Detected error
Deterministic testing
Diagnosis (fault~)
Dormant fault
Dynamic verification
Environment (system~)
Error
External fault
Fail-safe system
Fail-silent system
Fail-stop system
Failure
Fault
Fault-based testing
Fault-finding testing
Forecasting (fault~)
Forward recovery
Function (system~)
Functional testing
Hard fault
Human-made fault
Impairments to dependability
Incorrect service
Inconsistent failure
Independent faults
Integrity
Intentional fault
Intermittent fault
Internal fault
Intrusion
Latent error
Maintainability
Malicious logic
Masking (fault~)
Means for dependability
Omission failure
Operational fault
Operational testing
Passivation (fault~)
Performability
Permanent fault
Physical fault
Preventive maintenance
Prevention (fault~)
Processing (error~)
Procurement of dependability
Random testing
Real-time function
Real-time service
Real-time system
Recovery (error~)
Recovery point
Regression verification
Related faults
Reliability
Reliability growth
Removal (fault~)
Restoration (service~)
Safety
Security
Self-checking component
Sequential failures
Service
Severity (failure~)
Simultaneous failures
Soft fault
Solid fault
Specification (system~)
State (system~)
Stable reliability
Static verification
Statistical testing
Stopping failure
Structure (system~)
Structural testing
Symbolic execution
System
Temporary fault
Testing
Timing failure
Tolerance (fault~)
Transient fault
Treatment (fault~)
Trustability
User (system~)
Validation
Value function
Verification