Determining an Optimal Time Interval for Testing and Debugging Software

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 313-319

  Singpurwalla, Nozer D ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian design of experiments computer science optimal testing preposterior analysis reliability demonstration software certification software reliability utility; Index Terms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - PROGRAM DEBUGGING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DECISION THEORY AND ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

BAYESIAN DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL TIME INTERVAL; PREPOSTERIOR ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE CERTIFICATION; SOFTWARE OPTIMAL TESTING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY DEMONSTRATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0026138753     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.90431     Document Type: Article

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