Architectural-Level Risk Analysis Using UML

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 946-959

  Goseva Popstojanova, Katerina ^a   Hassan, Ahmed ^a   Guedem, Ajith ^a   Abdelmoez, Walid ^a   Nassar, Diaa Eldin M ^a   Ammar, Hany ^a   Mili, Ali ^b  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic complexity; Dynamic coupling; Markov model; Risk assessment; Severity of failure; Software architecture; UML specification

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0242411475     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1237174     Document Type: Article

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