A family of experiments to investigate the effects of groupware for software inspection

Automated Software Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 373-394

  Biffl, Stefan ^a   Grünbacher, Paul ^b   Halling, Michael ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Controlled experiment; Defect detection; Empirical software engineering; Inspection meeting; Software inspection; Software quality measurement; Tool support

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINES; SET THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DEFECT DETECTION; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; INSPECTION MEETING; SOFTWARE INSPECTION; SOFTWARE QUALITY MEASUREMENT; TOOL SUPPORT;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 33745217355     PISSN: 09288910     EISSN: 15737535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10851-006-8531-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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