Monitoring the Software Test Process Using Statistical Process Control: A Logarithmic Approach

Proceedings of the Joint European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-11)

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 158-167

  Cangussu, João W ^a   DeCarlo, Raymond A ^b   Mathur, Aditya P ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Logarithmic approach; Software test process; Statistical process control

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

LOGARITHMIC APPROACH; SOFTWARE TEST PROCESS (STP);

COMPUTER TESTING;

EID: 1542286886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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