Software defect repair times: A multiplicative model

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 93-100

  Gokhale, Swapna S ^a   Mullen, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Corporate Quality Metrics Cisco Systems Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Lognormal; Multiplicative factors; Software repair

Indexed keywords

CISCO SYSTEMS; LOGNORMAL; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTIPLICATIVE FACTORS; MULTIPLICATIVE MODELS; RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOFTWARE REPAIR; TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

COBALT; CODES (SYMBOLS); DEFECTS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MAINTENANCE; MODELS; PHOTOMASKS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

REPAIR;

EID: 57049084770     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370788.1370810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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