A cognitive-based mechanism for constructing software inspection teams

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 811-825

  Miller, James ^a   Yin, Zhichao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Code inspections and walkthroughs; Planning for SQA and V V; Programming teams; Software psychology

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR DETECTION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

CODE INSPECTIONS; CODE WALKTHROUGHS; PLANNING-FOR-SQA; PROGRAMMING TEAMS; SOFTWARE PSYCHOLOGY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 11244349802     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2004.69     Document Type: Article

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