The effect of the number of inspectors on the defect estimates produced by capture-recapture models

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 331-340

  Walia, Gursimran Singh ^a   Carver, Jeffrey C ^a   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture recapture models; Inspections; Requirements; Validation and verification

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE RECAPTURES; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE METHODS; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE MODELS; INSPECTIONS; REQUIREMENTS; SMALL DATA SETS; SOFTWARE INSPECTIONS; VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; SMALL DATA; SOFTWARE INSPECTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; BIOLOGY;

INSPECTION;

EID: 57349187184     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1368088.1368134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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