A software-reliability growth model for N-version programming systems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 311-321

  Teng, Xiaolin ^a,b   Pham, Hoang ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

N version programming (NVP); Non homogeneous poisson process (NHPP); Software fault tolerance; Software reliability; Software reliability growth model; Software testing

Indexed keywords

ERROR INTRODUCTION RATE; ERROR REMOVAL EFFICIENCY; N-VERSION PROGRAMMING SYSTEMS; NONHOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; SOFTWARE FAULT TOLERANCE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ERROR CORRECTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0036733184     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2002.801853     Document Type: Article

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