Proceedings, 10th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering. November 1-4,1999, Boca Raton, Florida, USA / sponsored by Lucent Technologies ... [and others] ; organized by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering and the IEEE Reliability Society.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

IEEE Xplore (Online service)

IEEE Computer Society.

IEEE Computer Society. Software Engineering Technical Committee.

IEEE Reliability Society.

Conference Name:

International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (10th : 1999 : Boca Raton, Fla.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software--Reliability--Congresses.

Computer software.

Computer software--Reliability.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 304 pages : illustrations

Other Title:

10th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering

Software Reliability Engineering

Also known as: ISSRE '99

Tenth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering

Software Reliability Engineering, 1999, proceedings, 10th International Symposium on.

Place of Publication:

Los Alamitos, Calif. : IEEE Computer Society Press, [1999]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Contents:

Challenges and Solutions for 24/7 System Availability / A. Rivers, T. Khoshgoftaar, M. Vouk 2

Everything You Wanted to Know about SRE but Didn't Know Who to Ask / J. Musa, W. Everett, K. Kanoun, A. Pasquini, N. Scheidewind, M. Vouk

Practical Issues in Implementing Software Reliability Measurement / A. Nikora, J. Musa, N. Schneidewind, W. Everett, J. Munson, M. Vouk 3

Software Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Challenges / Dr. Lou Blazy

Tenth Anniversary Panel: A Look Back at the Ten Years of ISSRE / T. Khoshgoftaar

Software Reliability Techniques Models I

Confidence Interval Estimation of NHPP-Based Software Reliability Models / L. Yin, K. Trivedi 6

Rare Failure-State in a Markov Chain Model for Software Reliability / M. Thomason, J. Whittaker 12

Enhancing the Predictive Performance of the Littlewood Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process Software Reliability Growth Model Using Data Censoring Techniques / P. Keiller, T. Mazzuchi

Reliability and Safety

Scenario-Based Reliability analysis of Component-Based Software / S. Yacoub, B. Cukic, H. Ammar 22

Building a System Failure Rate Estimator by Identifying Component Failure Rates / S. Kuball, J. May, G. Hughes 32

Applying Adaptive Safety Analysis Techniques / R. Lutz, H-Y. Shaw 42

OO Testing and Modeling

An Exception Handling Mechanism for Developing Dependable Object-Oriented Software Based on a Meta-Level Approach / A. Garcia, D. Beder, C. Rubira 52

Software Reliability Modeling and Cost Estimation Incorporating Testing-Effort and Efficiency / C-Y. Huang, J-H. Lo, S-Y Kuo, M. Lyu 62

Testing Object-Oriented Programs

An Integrated Approach / M-H. Chen, H. Kao 73

Software Reliability Techniques Models II

A Measurement-Based Model for Estimation of Resource Exhaustion in Operational Software Systems / K. Vaidyanathan, K. Trivedi 84

A Stochastic Model of Human Errors in Software Development: Impact of Repair Times / C. Smidts 94

Exploring Cost and Reliability Tradeoffs in Architectural Alternatives Using a Genetic Algorithm / S. Wadekar, S. Gokhale 104

Quality

Classification Tree Models of Software Quality Over Multiple Releases / T. Khoshgoftaar, E. Allen, W. Jones, J. Hudepohl 116

An Empirical Study of Experience-Based Software Defect Content Estimation Methods / H. Petersson, C. Wohlin 126

Predicting Deviations in Software Quality by Using Relative Critical Value Deviation Metrics / N. Schneidewind, A. Nikora 136

Testing I

Using Simulation for Assessing the Real Impact of Test Coverage on Defect Coverage / L. Briand, D. Pfahl 148

Efficient Regression Testing of Multi-Panel Systems / C. Williams, A. Paradkar 158

An Approach to Testing COTS Software for Robustness to Operating System Exceptions and Errors / A. Ghosh, M. Schmid 166

Software Development & Testing Methodology Used for Subscriber Digital Concentrator ACK-2000 / M. Popovic, V. Kovacevic 175

Testing Process Guidance for Resource Constrained Software Testing / A. Rivers, M. Vouk 180

Robustness Testing of a Distributed Simulation Backplane / K. Fernsler, P. Koopman 189

Increased Software Reliability through Input Validation Analysis and Testing / J. Hayes, A. Offutt 199

Mutation Testing Applied to Validate Specifications Based on Statecharts / S. Fabbri, J. Maldonado, T. Sugeta, P. Masiero 210

Software Reliability Techniques Models III

Developing a High-Quality Software Tool for Fault Tree Analysis / J. Dugan, K. Sullivan, D. Coppit 222

Failure Correlation in Software Reliability Models / K. Goseva-Popstojanova, K. Trivedi 232

Cost of Software Design Diversity: An Empirical Evaluation / K. Kanoun 242

Keynote

Rapid Business Value Delivery through Software Engineering / Rama Munikoti

Plenary Speaker

SRE at Microsoft / J. Tierney

Testing OO Software

Generating Test Cases from an OO Model with an AI Planning System / M. Scheetz, A. von Mayrhauser, R. France, E. Dahlman, A. Howe 250

Efficient Strategies for Integration and Regression Testing of OO Systems / T. Jeron, J-M. Jezequel, Y. Le Traon, P. Morel 260

Regression Testing on Object-Oriented Programs / Y. Wu, M-H. Chen, H. Kao 270

Early Quality Prediction

Experience Report on Early Software Reliability Prediction and Estimation / C. Smith, C. Uber 282

Requirements Volatility and Defect Density / Y. Malaiya, J. Denton 285

Deriving a Fault Architecture from Defect History / A. von Mayrhauser, J. Wang, M. Ohlsson, C. Wohlin 295.

Notes:

"IEEE Computer Society Press order number PR00443"--T.p. verso.

"IEEE Order Plan catalog number PR00443"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and author index.

ISBN:

0769504434

9780769504438

0769504450

9780769504452

OCLC:

43078648

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Restricted for use by site license.