Software reliability assessment using accelerated testing methods

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-30

  Ehrlich, Willa K ^a   Nair, Vijayan N ^b   Alam, M S ^a   Chen, W H ^a   Engel, Mark ^a  

^a AT and T Netwk and Comp Services   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated testing; Poisson regression; Software reliability; Software testing; Telecommunications network restoration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040577828     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00095     Document Type: Article

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