Software defect rediscoveries: A discrete lognormal model

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 10-19

  Mullen, Robert E ^a   Gokhale, Swapna S ^b  

^a CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete lognormal; Poisson lognormal; Software maintenance; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SET THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISCRETE LOGNORMAL; POISSON LOGNORMAL; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 33750949211     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2005.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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