Projects of the Experimental
Software Engineering Group at the University of Maryland
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Reading Techniques for
Fault Detection
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Problem
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Methods such as inspections are considered most effective in removing
defects during development. Inspections rely on effective reading techniques
for success. However, most efforts have been associated with inspection
methods that simply assume that the given document can be read effectively
but techniques for reading particular documents, such as requirements specifications
or test plans, do not exist. In cases where techniques do exist the required
skills are neither taught nor practiced. |
Goal
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To define a set of reading techniques for the early detection of faults
that can be usable in conjunction with existing methods, such as inspections.
The techniques must be tailorable to the document being read and the goals
of the organization for that document. |
Keywords
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reading technique, system-wide reading, task-oriented reading, OO frameworks,
framework learning, framework understanding, program comprehension, ET++,
experimental software engineering |
Participants
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University of Maryland
NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center
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References
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"The
Empirical Investigation of Perspective-Based Reading",
V. Basili, S. Green , O. Laitenberger , F. Lanubile, F. Shull, S. Soerumgaard,
and M. Zelkowitz, Empirical
Software Engineering: An International Journal , vol. 1, no. 2,
1996. (Also available as Technical Report ISERN-96-06.)
"
Packaging
researcher experience to assist replication of experiments", by
V. R. Basili, S. Green , O. Laitenberger, F. Lanubile, F. Shull, S. Sorumgard,
and M. Zelkowitz, Proc. of the ISERN
meeting 1996, Sydney, Australia.
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"Studies on reading techniques",
by V. Basili, G. Caldiera, F. Lanubile, and F. Shull,
Proc. of the Twenty-First Annual Software Engineering Workshop,
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, December 1996,
Software Engineering Laboratory Series, SEL-96-002, pp. 59-65. |
