An empirical investigation of fault repairs and mitigations in space mission system software

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Alonso, Javier ^a   Grottke, Michael ^b   Nikora, Allen P ^c   Trivedi, Kishor S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING-RELATED BUGS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; FAULT TYPES; MANDELBUGS; PROVIDE GUIDANCES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SPACE MISSIONS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 84883380373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2013.6575355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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