fault-tolerance

[Clara Benac Earle]

Hi,

I have written a simple client-server system in Erlang using the generic 
server behaviour. My system should recover gracefully when a client 
process dies. To do that I am using the supervsion tree behaviour for 
restarting the client process and the process_flag, link and handle_info 
primitives in the server to trap the exit signal from the client process 
and delete the information about the crashed process from the state of 
the server.

Now, I am having difficulties to test my program. To test the fault 
tolerance all I am doing is to start pman and kill a process client and 
observe the messages I am printing on the screen. The other way I am 
testing it is by writing code in the client which will make the client 
die. In this way I have a better knowledge of at which point the client 
dies. However, none of this two ways of debugging is very satisfactory.

I wanted to ask what people does for debugging fault-tolerant programs.

Cheers,
Clara


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