Simulating families of studies to build confidence in defect hypotheses

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 1019-1032

  Shull, Forrest ^a   Cruzes, Daniela ^b,c   Basili, Victor ^b   Mendonça, Manoel ^c  

^a Fraunhofer Center Maryland   (United States)

^b University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^c Universidade Salvador   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EXPERT SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

MANUAL ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOFTWARE PROCESS; STRUCTURED HYPOTHESIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 28844505029     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2005.09.007     Document Type: Article

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