Compound-poisson software reliability model

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 624-630

  Sahinoglu, Mehrnet ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Compounding density; failure batch size; geometric; logarithmic series; Poisson process; software reliability

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY THEORY;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY MODELS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0026896308     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.148480     Document Type: Article

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