faultoriented
Faultoriented is an adjective used to describe approaches, analyses, or designs that focus on faults, failures, and degraded modes within a system. The term emphasizes identifying potential faults, understanding their causes, modeling their effects, and developing mitigation strategies to prevent or contain failures. It is often used in reliability engineering, safety analysis, and software debugging to distinguish fault-centered work from event-centric or function-centric perspectives.
In practice, faultoriented methods may involve constructing fault models, enumerating failure modes, performing fault injection testing,
Critics caution that an exclusive fault-oriented stance can neglect system-level behavior, user requirements, and emergent properties.