Predicting component failures at design time

ISESE'06 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 18-27

  Schröter, Adrian ^a   Zimmermann, Thomas ^a   Zeller, Andreas ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Management; Measurement; Reliability

Indexed keywords

DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; FAILURE-PRONE COMPONENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247346109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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