Optimal stopping in software testing

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 88-104

  Morali, Nilgun ^b   Soyer, Refik ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Dynamic programming; Kalman filter; Preposterior analysis; Software reliability; Stochastic ordering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DECISION THEORY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; KALMAN FILTERING; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY;

BAYESIAN INFERENCES; PREPOSTERIOR ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0037314503     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.10048     Document Type: Article

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