Diagnosing rediscovered software problems using symptoms

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 113-127

  Lee, Inhwan ^a,b   Iyer, Ravishankar K ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

FAILURE SYMPTOMS; SOFTWARE FAILURE; SOFTWARE REDISCOVERY; SOFTWARE SERVICE; TANDEM SYSTEM;

PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 0033731417     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.841113     Document Type: Article

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