Exploratory analysis of environmental factors for enhancing the software reliability assessment

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 73-78

  Zhang, Xuemei ^a   Shin, Mi Young ^b   Pham, Hoang ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Linear regression; Nested design; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LINEAR ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035957807     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(00)00118-7     Document Type: Article

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