On allocation of resources during testing phase of a modular software

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 493-499

  Kapur, P K ^a   Bardhan, A K ^a   Yadavalli, V S S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Marginal effort; Mathematical programming; Modeling; Reliable software; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERSONNEL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY THEORY;

MARGINAL EFFORTS; MARGINAL TESTING EFFORT FUNCTION (MTEF); RELIABLE SOFTWARE;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 34249689645     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207720701353504     Document Type: Article

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