In-Process Evaluation for Software Inspection and Test

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 1055-1070

  Chaar, Jarir K ^a   Halliday, Michael J ^a   Bhandari, Inderpal S ^a   Chillarege, Ram ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Software development process; software inspection; software reliability; software testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; ERRORS; INSPECTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; TESTING;

DEFECT TRIGGERS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE INSPECTION; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0027702761     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.256853     Document Type: Article

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