Evaluation of capture-recapture models for estimating the abundance of naturally-occurring defects

ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 158-167

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

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture recapture models; Defect estimation, requirements; Empirical study; Software inspections; Validation and verification

Indexed keywords

CAPSTONE COURSE; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE MODELS; EMPIRICAL STUDY; INSPECTION PROCESS; PROJECT MANAGERS; RE INSPECTIONS; REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENTS; SOFTWARE INSPECTIONS; TWO SOURCES; VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; VERIFICATION;

INSPECTION;

EID: 62949108386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414004.1414031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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