Chapter 13, Software Reliability Engineering of Numerical Systems

Figure 13.1 Empirical and modeled failure intensity
Figure 13.2 Observed and modeled cumulative failures
Figure 13.3 Empirical and modeled intensity profile obtained during an early testing phase
Figure 13.4 Empirical and modeled failures obtained during an early testing phase
Figure 13.5 Field recovery and failure rates for a telecommunications product
Figure 13.6 Unavailability fit using LPET and constant repair rate with data up to "cut-off point" only
Figure 13.7 Fraction of shipped defects for two ideal testing strategies based on sampling with and without replacements, and a non-ideal testing under schedule and resource constraints
Figure 13.8 Illustration of failure space for three functionally equivalent programs
Figure 13.9 Illustration of comparison events

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