An experiment to assess the cost-benefits of code inspections in large scale software development

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 329-346

  Porter, Adam A ^a   Siy, Harvey P ^a   Toman, Carol A ^a   Votta, Lawrence G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Controlled experiments; Industrial experimentation; Power analysis; Software inspection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); SOFTWARE INSPECTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0031167442     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.601071     Document Type: Article

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