A time/structure based software reliability model

Annals of Software Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 85-121

  Gokhale, Swapna S ^a   Trivedi, Kishor S ^b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

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EID: 0033274950     PISSN: 10227091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018923329647     Document Type: Article

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