A Method for Software Reliability Analysis and Prediction Application to the Tropico-R Switching System

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 334-344

  Kanoun, Karama ^a   de Bastos Martini, Marta Rettelbusch ^b   de Souza, Jorge Moreira ^b  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

^b CPqD Telecom and IT Solutions   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Reliahility growth reliability prediction; software reliability; software reliability modeling; trend analysis

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS - RELIABILITY;

LAPLACE TESTS; RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS; RELIABILITY PREDICTION; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY MODELING; SWITCHING SYSTEM TROPICO-R; TREND ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0026140308     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.90433     Document Type: Article

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