Robustness testing of the microsoft Win32 API

Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 261-270

  Shelton, Charles P ^a   Koopman, Philip ^a   Devale, Kobey ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE; DEPENDABILITY; LINUX;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; RELIABILITY; SERVERS;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0034590173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSN.2000.857548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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