Paper Info
Title
Investigating the Effect of Expert Ranking of Use Cases for Design Inspection
Abstract
Inspection is an important approach to reduce defects in software engineering artifacts. Reading techniques such as Usage-Based Reading (UBR) can focus inspector attention on specific types of defects (missing and wrong information) and specific defect severity classes (critical, important and not important defects). For empirical investigation the replication of experiments can help increase the confidence in results. This paper presents a large-scale external experiment replication in the UBR family of experiments in an academic environment. Additionally to experiment replication we introduce a new reading technique variant UBR-ir to investigate the impact of expert know-how with ranking of use cases on the number and severity of defects found. Main results of the study are: (a) UBR expert know-how had significant effects on inspection effort distribution, effectiveness, and efficiency; (b) the share of false positives was higher for checklist-based reading (CBR) than for all UBR variants; and (c) both UBR variants perform significantly better than CBR, possibly due to the active guidance of use cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/EUROMICRO.2004.49
EUROMICRO
Keywords
Field
DocType
ubr variant,use cases,important approach,ubr family,large-scale external experiment replication,expert ranking,ubr expert know-how,use case,new reading technique variant,design inspection,experiment replication,important defect,checklist-based reading,software inspection,software quality,inspection,empirical software engineering,software engineering,false positive,software metrics
Checklist,Use case,Ranking,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Empirical process (process control model),Software metric,Software inspection,Software quality,Reliability engineering,Machine learning,False positive paradox
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1089-6503
0-7695-2199-1
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dietmar Winkler1828.81
Michael Halling219313.04
Stefan Biffl31305134.26