A Statistical Method for Software Quality Control

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-11, Issue 12, 1985, Pages 1424-1430

  Okumoto, Kazuhira ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional software test time; logarithmic Poisson model; software quality control; software reliability model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - REAL TIME OPERATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMMAND AND CONTROL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0022204323     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1985.232178     Document Type: Article

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