A Software Fault Prevention Approach in Coding and Root Cause Analysis

Bell Labs Technical Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 3-21

  Yu, Weider D ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^f IEEE   (Japan)

^g Chinese Acad Prof Assoc Mid Amer   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ERROR DETECTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE FAULT PREVENTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032049906     PISSN: 10897089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bltj.2101     Document Type: Article

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