Two-dimensional software reliability models and their application

Proceedings - 12th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3-10

  Ishii, Tomotaka ^a   Dohi, Tadashi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bivariate fault detection time distributions; Non homogeneous poisson processes; Software reliability; Test execution time; Testing effort; Two dimensional models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON EQUATION; SOFTWARE TESTING; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BIVARIATE FAULT DETECTION TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; NON HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESSES; TEST EXECUTION TIME; TESTING EFFORT;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 40349098352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.2006.64     Document Type: Conference Paper

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