Economic analysis of software release problems with warranty cost and reliability requirement

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-55

  Kimura, M ^a   Toyota, T ^a   Yamada, S ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

NONHOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; SOFTWARE RELEASE PROBLEMS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS; WARRANTY COSTS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0032632899     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(99)00020-4     Document Type: Article

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