A birth-process approach to Moranda's geometric software-reliability model

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 168-174

  Boland, Philip J ^a   Singh, Harshinder ^b,c  

^a National University of Ireland at Dublin   (Ireland)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Birth process; Mean and intensity function of a counting process; Mission time; Optimal release time; Software failure; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; THEOREM PROVING;

BIRTH PROCESS; COUNTING PROCESS; FAULT DETECTION; MEAN AND INTENSITY FUNCTION; MISSION TIME; OPTIMAL RELEASE TIME; POISSON PROCESS; PROBABILITY GENERATING FUNCTIONS; SOFTWARE FAILURE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0043175394     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2003.813166     Document Type: Article

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