Probe distribution techniques to profile events in deployed software

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 331-340

  Diep, Madeline ^a   Cohen, Myra ^a   Elbaum, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION LOSS; PROBE DISTRIBUTION;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34547686008     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2006.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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