A decision-analytic stopping rule for validation of commercial software systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 907-918

  Châvez, Tom ^a  

^a Rapt Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Commercial software development; Decision analysis; Reliability; Software testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECISION THEORY; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; CONJUGATE DISTRIBUTIONS; DECISION ANALYTIC STOPPING RULE; STATISTICAL DECISION THEORY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034273864     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.877849     Document Type: Article

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