Software reviews: The state of the practice

Software migration projects in Italian industry: Preliminary results from a state of the practice survey

“…We do not know whether our sample is representative of the Italian software engineering industry in general (it is a hard task), and are aware that Southern Italy is more represented by Northern Italy. On the other hand, we are aware that the size of our sample is similar to the one previously performed in German industry [2]. Of course, further data points are highly desired to generalize our findings.…”

“…The questionnaire has been developed following a standard schema [2]. The questionnaire consists of four sections and, depending on the three different paths (see Figure 1) followed by organizations that had already faced in the past at least one migration project (Group 1), that are planning to perform it in the near future (Group 2) and that did not perform any migration or are planning to do it (Group 3).…”

“…Only 4 are female (7%). With regard to the role of the respondent, 60% of the respondents stated that they have managing roles (projects management 2 Just a few were collected from a paper questionnaire 3 http://www.questionpro.com/ and IT management) while 24% are developers or architects. The rest are IT Technicians, Marketing and Sales employees and CEOs.…”

“…They are mainly related to the metrics used in the study, in our case the questions asked, typology of the questions (open/closed) and the scales used. Questionnaires were designed using standard ways and scales inspired by [2] and minimizing ambiguous questions. Moreover, as already said, we conducted a pilot study to tune the questionnaire and to reduce ambiguities.…”

Defect Types and Software Inspection Techniques: A Systematic Mapping Study

“…Software inspection is a specific type of software review (Ciolkowski et al, 2003) applied to artifacts by means of a systematic and well-planned defect identification process (Fagan, 1986;Kalinowski and Travassos, 2004;Sauer et al, 2000). According to CeBASE (http://www.cebase.org/defectreduction.html), over 60% of defects can be identified at early stages of the software life-cycle (Boehm and Basili, 2001;Gilb and Graham, 1993).…”