Assessing the impact of active guidance for defect detection: A replicated experiment

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 269-278

  Lanubile, Filippo ^a   Mallardo, Teresa ^a   Calefato, Fabio ^a   Denger, Christian ^b   Ciolkowski, Marcus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^c University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active Guidance; Inspections; Quality Assurance; Reading Techniques; Scenario based Reading

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE GUIDANCE; CHECKLIST BASED READING (CBR); READING TECHNIQUES; SCENARIO BASED READING (SBR);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INSPECTION; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 14844286154     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2004.1357909     Document Type: Conference Paper

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