Testing-resource allocation for redundant software systems

Proceedings - 1999 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 78-83

  Yang, Bo ^a   Xie, Min ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

COMPLETE SYSTEM; MAXIMUM RELIABILITY; MODULE RELIABILITY; OPERATIONAL RELIABILITY; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TESTING TIME;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 34250189844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.1999.816215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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