Investigating the effect of expert ranking of use cases for design inspection

Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO

Volumn 30, Issue , 2004, Pages 362-371

  Winkler, Dietmar ^a   Hailing, Michael ^b   Biffl, Stefan ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Empirical software engineering; External replication; Inspection; Reading technique; Software inspection; Usage based reading

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER TESTING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; EXPERIMENTS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EXTERNAL REPLICATION; READING TECHNIQUES (RT); SOFTWARE INSPECTION; USAGE-BASED READING (UBR); ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT; ACTIVE GUIDANCE; DESIGN INSPECTIONS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; READING TECHNIQUES; SPECIFIC DEFECTS; USAGE-BASED READING;

INSPECTION;

EID: 11844268078     PISSN: 10896503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eurmic.2004.1333391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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