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An experiment to assess the cost-benefits of code inspections in large scale software development

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Foundations of Software Engineering archive
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering table of contents

Washington, D.C., United States

Pages: 92 - 103

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-716-2

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A. Porter	Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
H. Siy	Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
C. A. Toman	Software Production Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois
L. G. Votta	Software Production Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Adam A. Porter , Harvey P. Siy , Lawrence G. Votta, Jr., Understanding the effects of developer activities on inspection interval, Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering, p.128-138, May 17-23, 1997, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
	Adam Porter , Harvey Siy , Audris Mockus , Lawrence Votta, Understanding the sources of variation in software inspections, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), v.7 n.1, p.41-79, Jan. 1998
	Pankaj Jalote , M. Haragopal, Overcoming the NAH syndrome for inspection deployment, Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering, p.371-378, April 19-25, 1998, Kyoto, Japan
	Per Runeson , Claes Wohlin, An Experimental Evaluation of an Experience-Based Capture-RecaptureMethod in Software Code Inspections, Empirical Software Engineering, v.3 n.4, p.381-406, December 1998