A Replicated Experiment to Assess Requirements Inspection Techniques

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-57

  Fusaro, Pierfrancesco ^a,c   Lanubile, Filippo ^b,c,d   Visaggio, Giuseppe ^c,e,f,g  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d IEEE

^e Software Eng Research Laboratory   (United States)

^f ICSM   (United Kingdom)

^g ACM and AICA

Author keywords

Inspection; Reading technique; Replicated experiments; Technique and process evaluation

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR DETECTION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

DEFECT DETECTION TECHNIQUES; REPLICATED EXPERIMENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030642990     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009742216007     Document Type: Article

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