Experimentation in software engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Orthogonal Defect Classification-A Concept for In-Process Measurements
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software measurement principles, techniques, and environments
Does every inspection need a meeting?
SIGSOFT '93 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
In-Process Evaluation for Software Inspection and Test
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software reliability
An Experiment to Assess the Cost-Benefits of Code Inspections in Large Scale Software Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Testing Techniques
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
Task-directed software inspection technique: an experiment and case study
CASCON '00 Proceedings of the 2000 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
The Repeatability of Code Defect Classifications
ISSRE '98 Proceedings of the The Ninth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
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
Effects of defects in UML models: an experimental investigation
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Towards a measurement tool for verification and validation of simulation models
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
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In many software organizations, defects are classified very simply, using categories such as Minor, Major, Severe, Critical. Simple classifications of this kind are typically used to assign priorities in repairing defects. Deeper understanding of the effectiveness of software development methodologies and techniques requires more detailed classification of defects. A variety of classifications has been proposed.Although most detailied schemes have been developed for the purpose of analyzing software processes, defect classification schemes have the potential for more specific uses. These uses require the classification scheme to be tailored to provide relevant details. In this vein, a new scheme was developed to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of software inspection techniques. This paper describes this scheme and its use as a metric in two empirical studies. Its use was considered successful, but issues of validity and repeatability are discussed.