Log-based reliability analysis of Software as a Service (SaaS)

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 239-248

  Banerjee, Sean ^a   Srikanth, Hema ^b   Cukic, Bojan ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Software analytics; Software as a service; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

DATA FILTRATION; END USERS; IT SOLUTION; LOG FILE; RELIABILITY MEASURE; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SERVICE PROVIDER; SOFTWARE ANALYTICS; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE; TEST PROCESS; WEB SERVERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; WEB SERVICES;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 79952013093     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2010.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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