Some successful approaches to software reliability modeling in industry

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 74, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 85-99

  Jeske, Daniel R ^a   Zhang, Xuemei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Architecture based reliability models; Operational profile; Sensitivity studies; Software reliability growth models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RELIABILITY THEORY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

ARCHITECTURE BASED RELIABILITY MODELS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 4944242016     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2003.10.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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