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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 36 , Issue 11 (November 1993) table of contents

Pages: 51 - 61

Year of Publication: 1993

ISSN:0001-0782

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John C. Knight	Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville
E. Ann Myers	National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

General Terms:
Reliability, Verification

Keywords:
formal inspections, reviews, walkthroughs

REVIEW

"Michael W. Whitelaw : Reviewer"

One way of increasing the reliability of software is to inspect it. The effectiveness of inspection is difficult to evaluate given the range of conceptual tasks, the range of conceptual abilities of the inspectors, and the inability to detect more...

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E. Ann Myers: colleagues

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