A comparison of tool-based and paper-based software inspection

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 233-253

  Macdonald, F ^a   Miller, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CASE; Controlled experiment; Software inspection; Tool support

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR DETECTION; INSPECTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; PAPER-BASED INSPECTION; SOFTWARE INSPECTION; TOOL SUPPORTS; PAPER-BASED SOFTWARE INSPECTION; TOOL-BASED SOFTWARE INSPECTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032157580     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009747104814     Document Type: Article

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