A large-scale industrial case study on architecture-based software reliability analysis

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 279-288

  Koziolek, Heiko ^a   Schlich, Bastian ^a   Bilich, Carlos ^a  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Markov processes; Software architecture; Software reliability growth

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL MODELS; COSTS AND BENEFITS; CRITICAL SOFTWARE; DATA COLLECTION; DISCRETE TIME MARKOV CHAINS; EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES; FAILURE RATE; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS; LINES OF CODE; LOGGING DATA; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRY; MARKOV PROCESSES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 79952017298     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2010.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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