On Some Reliability Estimation Problems in Random and Partition Testing

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1993, Pages 687-697

  Tsoukalas, Markos Z ^a   Ntafos, Simeon C ^a   Duran, Joe W ^a  

^a VideoTelecom ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Partition testing; random testing; reliability estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER PROGRAM TESTING STRATEGIES; PARTITION TESTING; RELIABILITY ESTIMATION PROBLEMS; THAYER-LIPOW NELSON RELIABILITY MODEL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0027629471     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.238569     Document Type: Article

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