{{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) DevPartner Fault Simulator is a software development tool used to simulate application errors. It helps developers and quality assurance engineers write, test and

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those parts of the

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responsible for handling fault situations which can occur within applications. The target application, where faults are simulated, behaves as if those faults were the result of a real software or hardware problem which the application could face. DevPartner Fault Simulator works with applications written for

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and .NET platforms and is integrated with the

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. DevPartner Fault Simulator belonged to the

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family of products offered by

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. At some point before the product line was sold to

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in 2009, the product was retired.

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