Common trends in software fault and failure data

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 484-496

  Hamill, Maggie ^a   Goseva Popstojanova, Katerina ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Fault location; Fault types; Software fault distribution; Software faults and failures; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FAULT LOCATION; FAULT TYPES; SOFTWARE FAULT DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE FAULTS AND FAILURES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 68949221564     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2009.3     Document Type: Article

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