Perspective-Based Reading: A Replicated Experiment Focused on Individual Reviewer Effectiveness

  • Authors:

  • José C. Maldonado;Jeffrey Carver;Forrest Shull;Sandra Fabbri;Emerson Dória;Luciana Martimiano;Manoel Mendonça;Victor Basili

  • Affiliations:

  • Departamento de Ciências da Computação, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC-USP), São Carlos, Brazil 13560;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, USA 39762;Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Maryland, College Park, USA 20740;Departamento de Computação, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil 13565-905;Universidade do Oeste Paulista, Faculdade de Informática de Presidente Prudente, Rua José Bongiovani, 700 - Cidade Universitária, São Carlos, Brazil CEP: 19050-680;Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC-USP), São Carlos, Brazil 13560;Departamento de Ciências Exatas--NUPERC, Universidade Salvador, Oliveira, Brazil 126 275;Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering and Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA

  • Venue:
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper describes a replication conducted to compare the effectiveness of inspectors using Perspective Based Reading (PBR) to the effectiveness of inspectors using a checklist. The goal of this replication was to better understand the complementary aspects of the PBR perspectives. To this end, a brief discussion of the original study is provided as well as a more detailed description of the replication. A detailed statistical analysis is then provided along with analysis of the PBR perspectives.For the individual PBR perspectives, we saw an interesting dichotomy: In the original study there was little overlap among the sets of defects found by each of the three perspectives, while in the replication two of the three perspectives found similar sets of defects on one of the two documents used in the study. Interestingly this document was the only case where the users of PBR were not more effective than the users of a checklist. This result leads to a new hypothesis that the complementary aspect of the PBR perspectives is the characteristic that provides the benefit over other defect detection techniques.