Needed resources for software module test, using the hyper-geometric software reliability growth model

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 541-549

  Hou, Rong Huei ^a   Chang, Yi Ping ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Lagrange multiplier method; Resource allocation; Software module testing; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; ERROR DETECTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

SOFTWARE MODULE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030378729     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.556577     Document Type: Article

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