Software Reliability Model for Modular Program Structure

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn R-28, Issue 3, 1979, Pages 241-246

  Littlewood, Bev ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptotic Poisson process; Availability; Modular software reliability; Semi Markov process; Software failure costs; Software life cycle costs; Software reliability costs; Software reliability measurement

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

AVAILABILITY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0018688011     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.1979.5220576     Document Type: Article

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