Improving the efficiency of verification and validation

International Journal of Services and Standards

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 150-166

  Belt, Pekka ^a   Harkonen, Janne ^a   Mottonen, Mattin ^a   Kessa, Pekka ^a   Haapasalo, Harri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Management of testing; Services; Standards; Testing; Validation; Verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349104713     PISSN: 17408849     EISSN: 17408857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSS.2008.016630     Document Type: Article

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