failsoft
Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system.
Adjective
- Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system.
- 1973, ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles The second phase of the executive development proceeded through two steps as stated in Section 2. First, a failsoft...
- After automatic self-test, an important follow-on step in improving test set availability is the incorporation of failsoft features in the control software in conjunction with hardware capabilities. - 1980, Autotestcon...
- The redundancy of components (computers, database management systems, operating systems, databases) inherent in a distributed environment makes the system failsoft […] - 1987, Mary E. S. Loomis, Data Base Book, page 387:
Origin
From fail + soft.