NDLI: Further investigations into the development and evaluation of reading techniques for object-oriented code inspection

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Dunsmore, A. Roper, M. Wood, M.
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, UK (Dunsmore, A.; Roper, M.; Wood, M.)
Abstract	Describes the development and experimental evaluation of a rigorous approach for effective object-oriented (OO) code inspection. Since their development, inspections have been shown to be powerful defect detection strategies but little research has been done to investigate their application to OO systems, which have very different structural and execution models compared to procedural systems. Previous investigations have demonstrated that the delocalised nature of OO software - the resolution of frequent non-local references and the incongruous relationship between its static and dynamic representations - are primary inhibitors to its effective inspection. The experiment investigates a set of three complementary code-reading techniques devised specifically to address these problems: one based on a checklist adapted to address the identified problems of OO inspections, one focused on the systematic construction of abstract specifications, and the last one centered on the dynamic slice that a use case takes through a system. The analysis shows that there is a significant difference in the number of defects found between the three reading techniques. The checklist-based technique emerges as the most effective approach, but the other techniques also have noticeable strengths, and so, for the best results in a practical situation, a combination of techniques is recommended.
Sponsorship	ACM ACM SIGSOFT IEEE Comput. Soc. IEEE Comput Soc. Tech. Council on Software Eng
Starting Page	47
Ending Page	57
File Size	1139135
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	158113472X
DOI	10.1145/581348.581349
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-05-25
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Inspection Permission Application software Object oriented modeling Power system modeling Inhibitors Industrial control Testing Java Encapsulation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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