Post-release reliability growth in software products

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Jalote, Pankaj ^a   Murphy, Brendan ^b   Sharma, Vibhu Saujanya ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Post release reliability growth; Product stabilization time

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

FAILURE RATES; POST-RELEASE RELIABILITY GROWTH; PRODUCT STABILIZATION TIME;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 50649084510     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 15577392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/13487689.13487690     Document Type: Article

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