Research Report: Modeling the Incidence of Postrelease Errors in Software

Information Systems Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 320-324

  Westland, J Christopher ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Economics of Information Technology; Software Errors and Reliability

Indexed keywords

LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

COMBINED EFFECT; ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LIFETIME TESTING; POTENTIAL FAILURES; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; RESEARCH REPORTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COSTS; SOFTWARE ERRORS;

ERRORS;

EID: 0034550212     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.11.3.320.12204     Document Type: Article

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