Number of Faults per Line of Code

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-8, Issue 4, 1982, Pages 437-439

  Lipow, M ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault prediction; fault rate; program complexity; software science

Indexed keywords

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EID: 0020151664     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1982.235579     Document Type: Article

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