Reducing field failures in system configurable software: Cost-based prioritization

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-70

  Srikanth, Hema ^a   Cohen, Myra B ^b   Qu, Xiao ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL INTERACTIONS; CONFIGURABLE; EARLY FAULT; ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE; FAULT DETECTION RATE; FIELD FAILURE; INDIVIDUAL CONFIGURATION; PRIORITIZATION; RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED; SET-UP TIME; SYSTEM LEVELS; SYSTEM TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST REDUCTION; FAULT DETECTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 77951428325     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2009.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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