The development and evaluation of three diverse techniques for object-oriented code inspection

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 677-686

  Dunsmor, Alastair ^a   Roper, Marc ^b   Wood, Murray ^b  

^a Abbey Mill Business Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Code reviews; Empirical study; Object oriented; Software inspection

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; INSPECTION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CHEKCLIST;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 0042991267     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1223643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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