Reexamining the fault density-component size connection

IEEE Software

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  Hatton, Les ^a,b  

^a Programming Research Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); APPROXIMATION THEORY; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PASCAL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RELIABILITY;

COMPONENT SIZE DISTRIBUTION; FAULT DENSITY; LOGARITHMIC BEHAVIOR; MOLLER-PAULISH FAULT DATA; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031099876     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/52.582978     Document Type: Article

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