Software quality economics for defect-detection techniques using failure prediction

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 11-16

  Wagner, Stefan ^a   Seifert, Tilman ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Reliability model; Software quality costs

Indexed keywords

COST ESTIMATIONS; COST MODELING; EXPERT OPINION; FAILURE PREDICTION; INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; RELIABILITY MODEL; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DEFECTS;

EID: 84885914360     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083292.1083296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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