Assessing software review meetings: results of a comparative analysis of two experimental studies

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 129-145

  Porter, Adam A ^a   Johnson, Philip M ^b  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^b University of Hawai'i at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled experiments; Inspection; Meetings; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001491851     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.585501     Document Type: Article

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