Assessing the cost-effectiveness of inspections by combining project data and expert opinion

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 124-135

  Briand, Lionel C ^a   Freimut, Bernd ^b   Vollei, Ferdinand ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA HANDLING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUALITY CONTROL;

SOFTWARE INSPECTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034539092     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2000.885866     Document Type: Article

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