Inspection effectiveness for different quality attributes of software requirement specifications: An industrial case study

Salger, Frank; Engels, Gregor; Hofmann, Alexander

doi:10.1109/wosq.2009.5071552

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“…Inspections are important because some defects cannot be found through conventional test units (e.g., a badly design iteration over an array, which does unnecessary loops causing performance degradation). Furthermore, there are well documented reports showing that the usage of software inspection in the early stages of the development cycle reduces the costs of bug fixes and leverages productivity [7] [18].…”

Section: Software Inspectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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InspectorX: A game for software inspection training and learning

Potter

Schots

Duboc

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE 27th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)

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Software inspections are recommended for improving the quality of software artifacts, but their effectiveness heavily depends on properly training inspectors and other stakeholders in the inspection process. We previously proposed InspectorX, a serious game for learning and training on software inspections, whose design accounts for an optimized cognitive load by offering different levels of difficulty. The game has already been evaluated regarding its learning potential in the detection of defects, revealing positive outcomes. Since then, InspectorX has extended its coverage to other stages of the inspection process, for a more realistic simulation. This paper presents the game's novel features and a new experiment that evaluates them with a bigger sample. Results indicate that there was considerable knowledge retention with just 20 minutes of gameplay. Suggestions on its design made by the experiment volunteers are also discussed.

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Section: Software Inspectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Its benefits, such as cost reduction and defect prevention in earlier stages of software development, are well discussed and established among the literature [6] [19] [18]. However, since inspection is a human-driven process, the effectiveness of its process is heavily influenced by people's skills and knowledge.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

InspectorX: A game for software inspection training and learning

Potter

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Duboc

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE 27th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)

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“…It is one of static testing (verification) techniques, and its main objective is to find and avoid an error which appears during the software development process. Software review process can be applied to any artefact created during the software development lifecycle, for example, business requirements, system designs, code, test plans, test cases and documentation [10], [12]. A systematic evaluation of these documents and artefacts occurs during this process.…”

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“…In order to decrease the number of defects detected at the end of testing or after the release of the software, it is necessary to take preventive measures starting with the project earliest phases. One of these preventive measures is static testing [6], [10].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Test Case Review Processes in Software Testing

Petunova¹,

Bērziša²

2017

Information Technology and Management Science

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-Qualitative system requirements and thoughtful communication are the key factors to successful implementation of software development projects. However, errors that occur by misunderstanding and incomprehension between parties involved in the project can lead not only to the high cost of the project but also to a large number of defects discovered only after the system release, which in turn strongly influences the product quality. The software review processes are implemented to reduce projects costs and ensure high product quality. The goal of the present paper is to identify the role of review processes in software testing. To achieve this goal, the process of test case review has been implemented during testing.

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“…Different sources however indicate that this might not be the case [11,12]. In fact it seems that some of the most critical quality attributes (like "completeness") escape reviews to a large extend [12].…”

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Requirements reviews revisited: Residual challenges and open research questions

Salger

2013

2013 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)

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It is widely accepted that early reviews on requirements specifications (RS) are an effective and efficient quality assurance technique. So why are they still not applied all over the software industry? In this paper we pinpoint that this is due to five major challenges: 1) Software requirements are based on flawed 'upstream' requirements and reviews on RS are thus in vain.2) The impact of sociological issues related to reviews is underestimated. 3) Important quality aspects of RS escape reviews. 4) The goal of applying reviews is not made clear and different review approaches are mixed. 5) Incremental software development poses specific challenges to applying reviews on RS. In this paper we argue that in order to solve these five challenges research on reviews must take a more holistic approach, stretching to pre-project phases and incorporating various other disciplines in order to add more value for the software industry. The paper also offers preliminary solutions to the discussed challenges and sketches open research questions of high relevance for the software industry.

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Inspection effectiveness for different quality attributes of software requirement specifications: An industrial case study

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

InspectorX: A game for software inspection training and learning

InspectorX: A game for software inspection training and learning

Test Case Review Processes in Software Testing

Requirements reviews revisited: Residual challenges and open research questions

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