A unified scheme of some nonhomogenous poisson process models for software reliability estimation

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 261-269

  Huang, Chin Yu ^a   Lyu, Michael R ^b   Kuo, Sy Yen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Mean value function (MVF); Nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP); Power transformation; Software reliability growth model (SRGM); Weighted arithmetic mean; Weighted geometric mean; Weighted harmonic mean

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037340138     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1183936     Document Type: Article

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