Experimental Materials

All of our experimental materials can be downloaded from this page in postscript format.

The following links lead to a suggested schedule for each day of the experiment. Each schedule lists the packets of experimental materials that will be necessary for each activity (presentation, training, or review) in the experiment. The required materials can be downloaded directly from these pages.

• Material for Day 1
• Material for Day 2

Alternately, the materials can be downloaded individually from the list below, along with additional resources for the experimenter.

Resources for the Experimenter

Summary paper:

This important part of the package reports the history, design and analysis strategies used in the experiment. (This paper is a technical report of the International Software Engineering Research Network, ISERN-96-06.)

Defect list:

This is a list of the defects seeded in the generic documents.

Materials Used in the Course of the Experiment

Documents:

These are the actual generic documents used in the experiment - two used for test purposes ( ATM and PG) and one for training purposes ( ABC Video).

Forms:

We used a number of forms for collecting data during the experiment.

1. List of participants
2. E0: Consent form (to be signed by each participant)
3. E1: Reviewer Background Questionaire
4. E2: Defect Classification Scheme
5. E3: Review Summary for usual technique reviewers
6. E4: Review Summary for PBR-technique reviewers
7. E5: Defect Report Form
8. E6D: Reading Scenario for Designer Perspective
9. E6T: Reading Scenario for Tester Perspective
10. E6U: Reading Scenario for User Perspective
11. E7: Feedback Questionaire

Examples:

We were presenting examples in the training sessions, these examples include forms and defect samples.

• Generic example: An example of how some defects that may be found in the sample document could be recorded on the defect report form.
• Designer Perspective: Sample defects that may be found from the focus questions, and defect report form
• Tester Perspective: Sample defects that may be found from the focus questions, and defect report form
• User Perspective: Sample defects that may be found from the focus questions, and defect report form

Slides:

We used different sets of slides during the training:

• Day 1, Introductory Presentation to Participants:
  Motivation, Goal, Design of the Experiment, Mechanics
• Day 2, Introductory Presentation to Participants:
  Design of the Experiment, Introduction to PBR, Mechanics

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