Ensuring system and software reliability in safety-critical systems

Proceedings - 1998 IEEE Workshop on Application-Specific Software Engineering and Technology, ASSET 1998

Volumn 1998-January, Issue , 1998, Pages 48-53

  Tsai, W T ^a   Mojdehbakhsh, R ^b   Zhu, F ^a  

^a BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SAFETY TESTING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

REGRESSION TESTS; RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL; RIPPLE EFFECTS; SAFETY ANALYSIS; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE MODIFICATION;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 0006619402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASSET.1998.688232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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