Using in-process testing metrics to estimate post-release field quality

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 209-214

  Nagappan, Nachiappan ^a   Williams, Laurie ^b   Vouk, Mladen ^b   Osborne, Jason ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY APPROACH; CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; EARLY WARNING; FIELD QUALITY; IN PROCESS; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; METRICS (CO); OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; PREDICTION MODELING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PHASES; SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLES; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; TESTING EFFORTS; UNIT TEST CASES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 47349084273     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2007.5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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