Assessment of fault-detection processes: an approach based on reliability techniques

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 632-637

  Morasca, Sandro ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fault detection; Fault estimation; Process assessment; Software development; Software reliability; Stopping rule

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; FAULT DETECTION; FAULT ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROCESS ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE ARTIFACT; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; STOPPING RULE;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0030379361     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.556586     Document Type: Article

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