The distribution of faults in a large industrial software system

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 2002 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 55-64

  Ostrand, Thomas J ^a   Weyuker, Elaine J ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical Study; Fault prone; Pareto; Software Faults; Software Testing

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

SOFTWARE FAULTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036986569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/566172.566181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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