Applying Software Reliability Engineering in the 1990s

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages sp372-sp378

  Everett, William ^a   Keene, Samuel ^b   Nikora, Allen ^c  

^a Software Process and Reliability Engineering   (United States)

^b Performance Technology   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Reliability modeling prediction; Software reliability; Software reliability enengineering (SRE); Software reliability tool kits

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; RELIABILITY; TRANSPORTATION;

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PACKAGE CASRE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SMERFS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032158205     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.740554     Document Type: Article

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