An experiment family to investigate the defect detection effect of tool-support for requirements inspection

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 278-285

  Halling, M ^a   Biffl, S ^b   Grunbacher P ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automation; Engineering management; Inspection; Project management; Quality management; Risk management; Software quality; Software tools; Sorting; Systems engineering and theory

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; EFFICIENCY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SORTING;

ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT; DESIGN INSPECTIONS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE INSPECTION; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND THEORIES;

INSPECTION;

EID: 84943165186     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2003.1232474     Document Type: Conference Paper

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