Overview --
Ballista: COTS Software Hardening & Robustness Evaluation

DARPA ITO Embeddable Systems PI Meeting Presentation: 3/97

Title Page -- Ballista: Off-The-Shelf Software Robustness Hardening & Evaluation

Overview

Ballista Project

Portable Robustness Benchmark Method

Pilot Portable OS Benchmark Approach

CRASH Severity Scale

System Calls Tested

Exhaustive Combinations of Parameters Tested

Robustness Bugs Found

Analysis

Conclusions

Ballista is sponsored by DARPA ITO, Embeddable Systems program, under contract DABT63-96-C-0064.