Adequacy, accuracy, scalability, and uncertainty of architecture-based software reliability: Lessons learned from large empirical case studies

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 197-203

  Goševa Popstojanova, Katerina ^a   Hamill, Margaret ^a   Wang, Xuan ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE CASE STUDY; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 34547686013     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2006.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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