An industrial case study to examine a non-traditional inspection implementation for requirements specifications

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 97-106

  Laitenberger, O ^a   Beil, T ^b   Schwinn, T ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer aided software engineering; Continuous improvement; Costs; Electrical capacitance tomography; Inspection; Phase detection; Software development management; Software engineering; Turning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COST ENGINEERING; COST REDUCTION; COSTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TURNING;

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; INSPECTION TECHNOLOGY; PHASE DETECTION; PROJECT ENVIRONMENT; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

INSPECTION;

EID: 84948464333     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2002.1011329     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (23)

1. Ackerman, A. F., Buchwald, L. S., and Lewsky, F. H., 1989. Software Inspections: An Effective Verification Process. IEEE Software, 6(3): 31-36.
2. Basili, V., Green, S., Laitenberger, O., Lanubile, F., Shull, F., Sorumgard, S., and Zelkowitz, M., 1996. The Empirical Investigation of Perspective-based Reading. Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, 2(1):133-164.
3. Basili, V. R., 1997. Evolving and Packaging Reading Technologies. Journal of Systems and Software, 38(1).
4. Berry, W.D., Feldman, S., . Multiple regression in practice. Sage Publication, 1985.
5. Bianchi, A., Lanubile, F., Visaggio, G., A Controlled Experiment to Assess the Effectiveness of Inspection Meetings, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Metrics, 2001.
6. Briand, L., El-Emam, K., Fussbroich, T., and Laitenberger, O., 1998. Using Simulation to Build Inspection Efficiency Benchmarks for Development Projects. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 340-349.
7. Cohen J. and Cohen P., Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers, 1983.
8. Ernst, D., Houdek, F. und Schwinn, T, 1998, An experimental comparison of static and dynamic defect detection techniques. In Proceedings of Quality Week 98, Software Research Institut, Mai 1998.
9. Fagan, M. E., 1976. Design and Code Inspections to Reduce Errors in Program Development. IBM Systems Journal, 15(3):182-211.
10. Gilb, T. and Graham, D., 1993. Software Inspection. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
11. Johnson, P.M., Tjahjono, D., 1998, Does Every Inspection Really Need a Meeting, Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 3,no.1,pp.9-35.
12. Laitenberger, O., Cost-Effective Detection of Software Defects through Perspective-based Inspections, PhD-Thesis, University of Kaiserslautern, ISBN 3-8167-5583-6, 2000.
13. Laitenberger, O. and DeBaud, J.-M., A Survey of Work in Software Inspections, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 50, no. 1., 2000.
14. Laitenberger, O., Leszak, M., Stoll, D., El Emam, K., Quantitative Modeling of Software Reviews in an Industrial Environment, Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Software Metrics, 1999.
15. Laitenberger, O., El Emam, K., and Harbich, T., 2001, An Internally Replicated Quasi-Experimental Comparison of Checklist and Perspective-based Reading of Code Documents. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol 27, no. 5, May 2001.
16. Parnas, D. L., 1987. Active Design Reviews: Principles and Practice. Journal of Systems and Software, 7:259-265.
17. Porter, A. A. and Johnson, P. M., 1997. Assessing Software Review Meetings: Results of a Comparative Analysis of Two Experimental Studies. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 23(3):129-144.
18. Porter, A. A., Votta, L. G., and Basili, V. R., 1995. Comparing Detection Methods for Software Requirements Inspections: A Replicated Experiment. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 21(6):563-575.
19. Retherford, R., Choe, M-K.. Statistical Models for Causal Analysis. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1993.
20. Robson, C., Real World Research - A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioners-Researchers, Blackwell, ISBN 0631176896, 1993.
21. Sauer, C., Jeffery, R., Land, L., Yetton, P., The Effectiveness of Software Development Technical Reviews: A Behaviorally Motivated Program of Research, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 26, no. 1, January 2000.
22. Schwinn, T., Landes D., Beil T., Kempter H., 1999, Making Know-How-Transfer Work in a Purchaser-Supplier Setting by Deploying Software Inspection, Sixth European Conference on Software Quality, 1999 Vienna, Austria
23. Votta, L. G., 1993. Does Every Inspection Need a Meeting? ACM Software Eng. Notes, 18(5):107-114.