Software Fault Tolerance: An Evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-11, Issue 12, 1985, Pages 1502-1510

  Anderson, Tom ^a   Barrett, Peter A ^a   Halliwell, Dave N ^a   Moulding, Michael R ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Real time systems; software fault tolerance; software reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - REAL TIME OPERATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COMMAND AND CONTROL; SOFTWARE FAULT-TOLERANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0022217306     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1985.231894     Document Type: Article

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