Software reliability engineering: A roadmap

FoSE 2007: Future of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 153-170

  Lyu, Michael R ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

FAILURE DATA; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34748850938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FOSE.2007.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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