Objective vs. subjective measures of error-proneness for rule-based programs

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1008-1012

  Moores, Trevor T ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Division of Accounting and Computer Information Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity measures; Empirical; Error proneness; Program structure; Prolog; Rule based systems; System quality

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ERROR PRONENESS; OBJECTIVE MEASURES; SUBJECTIVE MEASURES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0032208027     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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