This chapter presents the specification of dependability benchmarks for general-purpose operating systems with respect to application erroneous behavior, and shows examples of benchmark results obtained for various versions of Windows and Linux operating systems. The benchmark measures are: operating system robustness (as regards possible erroneous inputs provided by the application software to the operating system (OS) via the application programming interface), the OS reaction, and restart

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... es in the presence of faults. Two workloads are used for implementing the benchmark: PostMark, a file system performance benchmark for operating systems, and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) middleware, a software layer on top of the OS allowing applications in Java language to be platform independent.