An Empirical Investigation on the Impact of Training-by-Examples on Inspection Performance

Chowdhury, Atiq; Land, Lesley Pek Wee

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24659-6_15

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“…Rifkin and Deimel [19] also reduced the customers reported errors by 90% through a software reading training. Chowdhury and Land [20,21] embraced this exact argument. They conducted two experiments (the second was a replication) and quite conclusively showed that training had positive effects on inspection performance.…”

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"Is It Really a Defect?" An Empirical Study on Measuring and Improving the Process of Software Defect Reporting

Wang

Yang

et al. 2011

2011 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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Testing is one of the most labor-intensive activities in software development life cycle and consumes between 30% and 50% of total development costs according to many studies. The communication gap between testers and developers that is caused by unclear or even invalid defect reporting usually makes the testing schedule delay, and contributes large amount of testing effort to rework and re-communication. Defect reporting's efficiency directly influences testing efficiency and effectiveness. From our observation and improvement practices on a software product with recent 4 increments: 1) the percentage of unclear defect reports is around 23%, but more than 82% testers, more or less, reported unclear defect reports,; 2) the percentage of invalid defect reports is around 26%, but more than 35% testers reported invalid defect reports. Improvement practices that we took on training testers on how to report defect in a clearer and more efficient way further bridged the communication gap between testers and developers, and it can reduce 15.7% unclear defect reports and 19.53% invalid defect reports, which finally led to the improvement of testing efficiency.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 94%

"Is It Really a Defect?" An Empirical Study on Measuring and Improving the Process of Software Defect Reporting

Wang

Yang

et al. 2011

2011 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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Investigating training effects on software reviews: a controlled experiment

Land

Tan²,

Liang³

2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, 2005.

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The software review/inspection task is a labour and time intensive activity. Naturally, any activity aimed at improving the performance of inspectors would be deemed favourable to both practitioners as well as to researchers. This study is motivated by previous work by Chowdhury and Land [4,5], on the effects of inspector training on inspection performance. There have been few studies in this area. One classic controlled experiment, consisting of 86 subjects was conducted. We manipulated one independent variable (training). The control group undertook no training, the other 3 treatments were process training, process training with practice and process training with worked examples. The results show practice and worked examples proceeding process training, were both very promising training approaches. They did not affect false positive identification. However, their relative benefits were less clear. We also pinpointed a few possible areas for future research from this work. 0-7803-9508-5/05/$20.00 (c)2005 IEEE

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An Empirical Investigation on the Impact of Training-by-Examples on Inspection Performance

Cited by 2 publications

References 24 publications

"Is It Really a Defect?" An Empirical Study on Measuring and Improving the Process of Software Defect Reporting

"Is It Really a Defect?" An Empirical Study on Measuring and Improving the Process of Software Defect Reporting

Investigating training effects on software reviews: a controlled experiment

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