Towards quantitative software reliability assessment in incremental development processes

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 41-50

  Fujii, Toshiya ^a,c   Dohi, Tadashi ^a   Fujiwara, Takaji ^b,d  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^d Fujitsu Quality Laboratory Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

data analysis; incremental development; maximum likelihood estimation; non homogeneous poisson processes; software metrics; software reliability

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS MODELS; INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT; ITERATIVE AND INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT; NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PROJECT DATA; RELIABILITY GROWTH; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 79959883325     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985793.1985800     Document Type: Conference Paper

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