Improving usefulness of software quality classification models based on Boolean discriminant functions

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 221-230

  Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Seliya, Naeem ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Software quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY;

CLASSIFICATION MODELS; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; HYBRID CLASSIFICATION; RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE QUALITY ESTIMATION;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 16244387116     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2002.1173256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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