Software reliability and testing time allocation: An architecture-based approach

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 323-337

  Pietrantuono, Roberto ^a   Russo, Stefano ^a   Trivedi, Kishor S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Reliability; Software architecture; Software testing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; DESIGN PHASE; EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; HIGH RELIABILITY; INPUT PARAMETER; LEVELS OF DETAIL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION ERRORS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; RELIABILITY SOFTWARE; RESOURCES ALLOCATION; RISK LEVELS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TESTING TIME;

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ENGINEERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE TESTING; VERIFICATION;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 77953122165     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2010.6     Document Type: Article

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