Assessing the effectiveness of a distributed method for code inspection: A controlled experiment

Proceedings - International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 252-261

  De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Fasano, Fausto ^a   Tortora, Genoveffa ^a   Scanniello, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ASYNCHRONOUS DISCUSSIONS; AUTOMATIC MERGE; CODE INSPECTIONS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; DECISION SUPPORTS; DISTRIBUTED METHODS; INSPECTION METHODS; POTENTIAL DEFECTS; REFINEMENT PHASE; SOFTWARE ARTEFACTS; SYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATIONS; TEAM MEMBERS; WEB BASED;

INSPECTION;

EID: 47949122132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2007.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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