Estimation of failure rate using random and partition testing

Software Testing Verification and Reliability

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 153-164

  Hierons, Robert M ^a   Wiper, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Failure rate; Operational profile; Partition testing; Random sampling

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY;

PARTITION TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0031222241     PISSN: 09600833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1689(199709)7:3<153::AID-STVR141>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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