On the Comparison of two Software Relibility Estimators
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
- Vol. 2 (1) , 15-21
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269964800000589
Abstract
Two different estimators of the failure rate of software are compared. It is shown that one tends to be better when the number of errors is small to moderate and the other when the number of errors is large.Keywords
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