Software reliability analysis incorporating second-order architectural statistics

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 267-290

  Gokhale, Swapna S ^a  

^a University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Second order statistics; Software architecture; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONTROLLED FLOW GRAPH-DTMC; FAILURE MODEL; SECOND-ORDER STATISTICS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 21144442341     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539305001768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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