Orthogonal Defect Classification-A Concept for In-Process Measurements
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software measurement principles, techniques, and environments
An improved inspection technique
Communications of the ACM
An Experiment to Assess the Cost-Benefits of Code Inspections in Large Scale Software Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Communications of the ACM
Active design reviews: principles and practices
ICSE '85 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Software engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Comparing Detection Methods for Software Requirements Inspections: A Replicated Experiment
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
On Teaching Software Verification and Validation
Proceedings of the 8th SEI CSEE Conference on Software Engineering Education
Comparing Inspection Strategies for Software Requirement Specifications
ASWEC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 Australian Software Engineering Conference
The Repeatability of Code Defect Classifications
ISSRE '98 Proceedings of the The Ninth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Communications of the ACM
How to do inspections when there is no time
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
A case study in the use of defect classification in inspections
CASCON '01 Proceedings of the 2001 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Qualitative observations from software code inspection experiments
CASCON '02 Proceedings of the 2002 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
An experiment to investigate interacting versus nominal groups in software inspection
CASCON '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Task-directed software inspection
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Applications of statistics in software engineering
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Research in software inspection has led to the development of inspection techniques focused on providing structure and guidance to the individual inspector, with the goal of improving effectiveness. This paper defines and investigates a new inspection technique, task-directed inspection, specifically developed for inspecting complex computational code, but capable of being applied in other software domains. Students from the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University in Kingston, as participants in an experiment, applied two task directed techniques and an industry-standard non-structured inspection technique to a civil engineering code in use in military applications. Results from the experiment were analyzed with a new Orthogonal Defect Classification for computational code developed for this research. Based on this small sample group, the task-directed techniques help software inspectors more thoroughly examine and understand software code. This research also points out the differences between experienced and inexperienced inspectors, and opens up several possibilities for further research.