A replicated quantitative analysis of fault distributions in complex software systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 273-286

  Andersson, Carina ^a   Runeson, Per ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Empirical research; Replication; Software fault distributions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

COMPLEX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; REPLICATED QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE FAULT DISTRIBUTIONS; SYSTEM TESTING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247638920     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.1005     Document Type: Article

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