An extended replication of an experiment for assessing methods for software requirements inspections

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 327-354

  Sandahl, Kristian ^a   Blomkvist, Ola ^b   Karlsson, Joachim ^c   Krysander, Christian ^b   Lindvall, Mikael ^b   Ohlsson, Niclas ^b  

^a ERICSSON RADIO SYSTEMS AB   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Focal Point AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Controlled experiments; Inspections; Method evaluation; Replicated study

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ERROR DETECTION; INSPECTION; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SPECIFICATIONS;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; METHOD EVALUATION; REPLICATED STUDY; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS INSPECTIONS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032320979     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009724120285     Document Type: Review

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