Software reliability analysis by considering fault dependency and debugging time lag

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 436-450

  Huang, Chin Yu ^a,b   Lin, Chu Ti ^b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fault correction; Fault detection; Non homogeneous poisson processes; Software reliability growth models; Software testing

Indexed keywords

FAULT CORRECTION; NON HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESSES; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS (SRGM);

ERROR CORRECTION; FAULT DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 34047271093     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2006.879607     Document Type: Article

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