The Failure Rate of Software: Does It Exist?

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 463-469

  Singpurwalla, Nozer D ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

failure rate; intensity function; Software reliability; stochastic process; subjective probability; times between failures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; HAZARDS AND RACE CONDITIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INTENSITY FUNCTION; SOFTWARE FAILURE RATE; SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY; TIMES BETWEEN FAILURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0029379204     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.406582     Document Type: Article

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