On the distribution of bugs in the Eclipse system

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 872-877

  Concas, Giulio ^a   Marchesi, Michele ^a   Murgia, Alessandro ^a   Tonelli, Roberto ^a   Turnu, Ivana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

empirical research; object oriented systems; Software bug distribution

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION; EMPIRICAL DATA; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GENERATION PROCESS; LOG-NORMAL; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM; POWER-LAW TAIL; SOFTWARE BUG DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; WEIBULL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 83555172553     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2011.54     Document Type: Article

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