A software fault tree metric

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 401-410

  Needham, D ^a   Jones, S ^a  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

KEY NODE SAFETY; SOFTWARE FAULT TREE METRICS; SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34547346826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2006.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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