An assessment of testing-effort dependent software reliability growth models

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 198-211

  Huang, Chin Yu ^a   Kuo, Sy Yen ^b,c   Lyu, Michael R ^d  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Delayed S shaped model; Imperfect debugging; Non homogeneous Poisson process; Software reliability growth models; Testing effort function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULT DETECTION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

IMPERFECT DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS; TESTING-EFFORT FUNCTION;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 34250328268     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2007.895301     Document Type: Article

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