Toward a more reliable theory of software reliability

Computer

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 36-42

  Whittaker, James A ^a   Voas, Jeffrey ^b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA STRUCTURES; ERROR DETECTION;

RELIABILITY MEASUREMENT MODELS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034507760     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2.889091     Document Type: Article

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