The application of capture-recapture log-linear models to software inspections data

Proceedings - 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 213-222

  Kamel, A ^a   Sorenson, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animals; Application software; Chromium; Computer industry; Inspection; Robustness; Sampling methods; Software engineering; Software quality

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CHROMIUM; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; COMPUTER INDUSTRY; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; SAMPLING METHOD; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DATA; SOFTWARE INSPECTION; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

INSPECTION;

EID: 62949116942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2003.1237980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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