Incorporating code coverage in the reliability estimation for fault-tolerant software

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 45-52

  Chen, Mei Hwa ^a   Lyu, Michael R ^a   Wong, W Eric ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RELIABILITY;

CODE COVERAGE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0031334372     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1109/RELDIS.1997.632796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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