An experimental evaluation of inspection and testing for detection of design faults

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 174-184

  Andersson, C ^a   Thelin, T ^a   Runeson, P ^a   Dzamashvili, N ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Communication system software; Costs; Fault detection; Inspection; Programming; Software engineering; Software quality; Software systems; Software testing; System testing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST ENGINEERING; COSTS; DESIGN; EFFICIENCY; FAULT DETECTION; INSPECTION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SOFTWARE; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FAULT DETECTION TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM TESTING; VERIFICATION-AND-VALIDATION;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84944323902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2003.1237976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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