Software reliability modeling with test coverage: Experimentation and measurement with A fault-tolerant software project

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 17-26

  Cai, Xia ^a   Lyu, Michael R ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fault tolerant software; Software reliability modeling; Software testing; Test coverage

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TESTING;

EXECUTION TIME; FAILURE DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANT SOFTWARE; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; KEY FACTORS; MULTI-VERSION; NOVEL METHODS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; RELIABILITY ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY MODELING; SOFTWARE FAILURES; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE-QUALITY; TEST COVERAGE; TESTING TIME; TRADITIONAL SOFTWARE;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 44349159980     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2007.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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