Software reliability growth model with change-point and environmental function

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1578-1587

  Zhao, Jing ^a   Liu, Hong Wei ^a   Cui, Gang ^a   Yang, Xiao Zong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Change point; Non homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP); Software reliability growth model; Time varying environmental factor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON EQUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHANGE POINT; NON HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS (NHPP); SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS (SRGM); TIME VARYING ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 33748152344     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.02.030     Document Type: Article

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