Evaluating defect estimation models with major defects
Journal of Systems and Software
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
A paradigm for metric based inspection process for enhancing defect management
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
An empirical study on the effectiveness of security code review
ESSoS'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Secure Software and Systems
Empirical Software Engineering
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Inspection of software documents is an effective quality assurance measure to detect defects in the early stages of software development. It can provide timely feedback on product quality to both developers and managers. This paper reports on a controlled experiment that investigated the influence of reading techniques and inspector capability on individual effectiveness to find given sets of defects in a requirements specification document. Experimental results support the hypothesis that reading techniques can direct inspectors' attention towards inspection targets, i.e. on specific document parts or severity levels, which enables inspection planners to divide the inspection work among several inspectors. Further, they suggest a tradeoff between specific and general detection effectiveness regarding document coverage and inspection effort. Inspector capability plays a significant role in inspection performance, while the size of the effect varies with the reading technique employed and the inspected document part.