Deriving fault architectures from defect history

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 287-304

  Andrews, Anneliese Amschler ^a,c,d,e,f   Ohlsson, Magnus C ^b,g,h   Wohlin, Claes ^b,g,i  

^a Colorado State University   (United States)

^b LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^f University of Karlskrona ^*  (United States)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h University of Karlskrona   (Sweden)

ⁱ LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Architectural faults; Decay identification; Fault prone components; Release analysis

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); CODING ERRORS; ERROR CORRECTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS;

CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE; DECAY IDENTIFICATION; FAULT PRONE COMPONENTS; MICROCODE; RELEASE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0347014845     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-908x(200009/10)12:5<287::aid-smr214>3.0.co;2-i     Document Type: Article

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