Software product improvement with inspection. A large-scale experiment on the influence of inspection processes on defect detection in software requirements documents

Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 262-269

  Biffl, Stefan ^a   Halling, Michael ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

controlled experiment; defect detection techniques; empirical software engineering; quality measurement; Software inspection process

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DEFECT DETECTION; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; SOFTWARE INSPECTION;

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

INSPECTION;

EID: 84889250956     PISSN: 10896503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/EURMIC.2000.874427     Document Type: Article

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