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Choosing a testing method to deliver reliability

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Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering table of contents

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 68 - 78

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-914-9

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Phyllis Frankl	CIS Dept., Polytechnic Univ., 6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY
Dick Hamlet	Dept. of CS, Portland State Univ., PO Box 751, Portland, OR
Bev Littlewood	Centre for Software Reliability, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB, UK
Lorenzo Strigini	Centre for Software Reliability, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB, UK

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IEEE-CS\TCSE : TC on Software Engineering
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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