Validating the defect detection performance advantage of group designs for software reviews: Report of a laboratory experiment using program code

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1301, Issue , 1997, Pages 294-309

  Landf, Lesley Pek Wee ^a   Sauer, Chris ^a   Jeffery, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Defect detection; False positives; Interacting group; Nominal group; Software development technical review

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DEFECT DETECTION; FALSE POSITIVE; INTERACTING GROUP; NOMINAL GROUP; TECHNICAL REVIEWS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84949444906     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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