Using reading techniques to focus inspection performance

Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 248-257

  Halling, Michael ^a   Biffl, Stefan ^a   Grechenig, Thomas ^a   Köhle, Monika ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

defect detection techniques; empirical sofhvare engineering; quality measurement; replicated experiment; Sofiare inspection process

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT; DEFECT DETECTION; INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE; INSPECTION PROCESS; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; REPLICATED EXPERIMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INSPECTION;

EID: 84889075164     PISSN: 10896503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/EURMIC.2001.952461     Document Type: Article

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