Software Reliability in the System Context

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-12, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 51-58

  Hecht, Herbert ^a   Hecht, Myron ^a  

^a SoHaR Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer failure models; computer system reliability; software management; software reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE - FAILURE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0022583169     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1986.6312919     Document Type: Article

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