Does the modern code inspection have value?

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 281-289

  Siy, Harvey ^a   Votta, Lawrence ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODE INSPECTION; DEFECT DETECTION; NONCOMMENTARY SOURCE LINE CODES;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA STRUCTURES; PROGRAM COMPILERS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77956611370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2001.972741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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