A scenario-based reliability analysis approach for component-based software

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 465-480

  Yacoub, Sherif ^a   Cukic, Bojan ^b   Ammar, Hany H ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Component based software; Component dependency graphs (CDG); Scenario based reliability analysis (SRBA); Software reliability analysis and modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPONENT BASED SOFTWARE; COMPONENT DEPENDENCY GRAPHS; SCENARIO BASED RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 10244229097     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2004.838034     Document Type: Article

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