Large empirical case study of architecture-based software reliability

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 43-53

  Goševa Popstojanova, Katerina ^a   Hamill, Margaret ^a   Perugupalli, Ranganath ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE APPLICABILITY; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33750938295     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2005.25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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