Modeling and analysis of software fault detection and correction process by considering time dependency

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 629-642

  Wu, Y P ^a   Hu, Q P ^b   Xie, M ^a   Ng, S H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Delay time modeling; Delays; Fault correction; Fault detection; Fault tolerance; Maximum likelihood estimation; Modeling; Non homogeneous poisson process; Parameter estimation; Poisson equation; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

FAULT DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANCE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON EQUATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DELAY TIME MODELING; FAULT CORRECTION; NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 36949029382     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2007.909760     Document Type: Article

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