Theories of Software Reliability: How Good Are They and How Can They Be Improved?

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-6, Issue 5, 1980, Pages 489-500

  Littlewood, Bev ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Debugging software; program error; reliability growth; software bug count; software failure; software failure rate; software life cycle cost; software reliability measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0019057466     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1980.230790     Document Type: Article

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