Reference
Winkler, D., Thurnher, B., & Biffl, S. (2007). Early Software Product Improvement with Sequential Inspection Sessions: An Empirical Investigation of Inspector Capability and Learning Effects. Paper presented at the Euromicro SEAA, Lübeck, Germany.
Publication type
Paper in Conference Proceedings
Abstract
Software inspection facilitates product improvement in early phases of software development by detecting defects in various types of documents, e.g., requirements and design specifications. Empirical study reports show that usage-based reading (UBR) techniques can focus inspec-tors on most important use cases. However, the impact of inspector qualification and learning effects in the context of inspecting a set of documents in several sessions is still not well understood. This paper contributes a model for investigating the impact of inspector capability and learning effects on inspection effectiveness and efficiency in a large-scale empirical study in an academic context. Main findings of the study are (a) the inspection tech-nique UBR better supported the performance inspectors with lower experience in sequential inspection cycles (learning effect) and (b) when inspecting objects of simi-lar complexity significant improvements of defect detec-tion performance could be measured.
Persons
Organizational Units
- Institute of Information Systems
- Hilti Chair of Business Process Management