Planning models for software reliability and cost

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 420-434

  Helander, Mary E ^a   Zhao, Ming ^a   Ohlsson, Niclas ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Budget constraints; Budget constrained reliability maximization (bcrm) moder; Certification; Cleanroom software development; COCOMO; Cost planning, failure intensity; Lagrangian multipliers; Linear programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006565375     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.689400     Document Type: Article

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