Sensitivity of reliability-growth models to operational profile errors vs testing accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 531-540

  Pasquini, A ^a   Crespo, A N ^a   Matrella, P ^a  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Operational profile; Random testing; Reliability modeling; Reliability growth model; Software fault; Software reliability; Software testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

OPERATIONAL PROFILE; RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS; SOFTWARE FAULT; SOFTWARE SYSTEM;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030417573     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.556576     Document Type: Article

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