Two dimensional multi-release software reliability modeling and optimal release planning

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 758-768

  Kapur, P K ^a   Pham, H ^b   Aggarwal, Anu G ^c   Kaur, Gurjeet ^c  

^a AMITY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Multi release planning; software reliability growth model; two dimensional software reliability growth model

Indexed keywords

COBB-DOUGLAS PRODUCTION FUNCTION; COMBINED EFFECT; FAILURE DATA; FAILURE PROCESS; NEW PRODUCT; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPERATIONAL PHASE; OPTIMAL RELEASE; RELIABILITY GROWTH; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTHS; UP GRADATIONS;

INDUSTRY; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84865789278     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2012.2207531     Document Type: Article

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