The impact of educational background on the effectiveness of requirements inspections: An empirical study

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 800-812

  Carver, Jeffrey C ^a   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^b   Page, Alan ^b  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Metrics measurement; Requirements specifications; Software quality SQA

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; END PRODUCTS; INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCES; METRICS/MEASUREMENT; MICROSOFT CORPORATIONS; REQUIREMENTS/SPECIFICATIONS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE QUALITY/SQA; UNIVERSITY DEGREES;

INSPECTION;

EID: 58049198405     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2008.49     Document Type: Article

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