An empirical study of tracing techniques from a failure analysis perspective

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 280-291

  Kanduri, Satya ^a   Elbaum, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Buffer storage; Computer science; Condition monitoring; Electronic switching systems; Failure analysis; Instruments; Performance analysis; Software debugging; Software performance

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER DEBUGGING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONDITION MONITORING; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INSTRUMENTS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; ELECTRONIC SWITCHING SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; SOFTWARE DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE; TRACING TECHNIQUE;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33747440797     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2002.1173270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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