Software faults in evolving a large, real-time system: A case study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 717 LNCS, Issue , 1993, Pages 48-67

  Perry, Dewayne E ^a   Stieg, Carol S ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); CODING ERRORS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

CODING PHASIS; QUESTIONAIRE; SOFTWARE FAULT; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 85029525851     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-57209-0_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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