Reliability growth of a software model under imperfect debugging and generation of errors

Microelectronics Reliability

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1475-1482

  Zeephongsekul, P ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPERFECT DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL;

COMPUTER TESTING; ERROR DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0030268818     PISSN: 00262714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0026-2714(95)00188-3     Document Type: Article

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