Robustness Measurement in OS Forecast and Selection

Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) operating systems have long been widely used. However, the problem con-cerning the robustness of such OSs is far from being solved. Although many efforts have been made in this research do-main, people still find it difficult to make choices among presents a brief summary of our OS robustness measure-ment in our work of constructing a reference model for OS forecast and selection. We measure both the robustness of OS APIs and their usage frequency in typical operational profiles. Our research has obtained some interesting pre-liminary results and is still ongoing. 1