A comparison of the reliability growth of open source and in-house software

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 229-236

  Syed Mohamad, Sharifah Mashita ^a   McBride, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Defect profile; In house software; Open source software; Orthogonal defect classification (ODC); Software reliability

Indexed keywords

IN-HOUSE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCES; ORTHOGONAL DEFECT CLASSIFICATION (ODC); RELIABILITY GROWTH; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; HOUSES; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 67650558476     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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