Intel Corporation

Matthew L King

Jesse R Walker

David W Grawrock

Kirk D Brannock

Yuriy Bulygin

In an embodiment of the invention an application provider may include 'tracing elements' in a target software application. While working with the application the trace elements are detected and provide a 'baseline trace' indicating proper application execution. The provider then supplies the application, which still includes the trace elements, and the baseline trace to a user. The user operates the application to produce a &#x201c;real-time trace&#x201d; based on the application still having trace elements that produce trace events. A comparator then compares the baseline and real-time traces. If the traces are within a pre-determined range of each other the user has a level of assurance the software is operating correctly. If the level of assurance is low, an embodiment may trigger a hardware interrupt or similar event to prevent further execution of software. Other embodiments are described herein.

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Matthew L King