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CSRS
Tool support for on-line, collaborative software review and empirical investigation of the strengths and weaknesses of meeting-based review. (1991-1996)
Participants
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- CSDL: Danu Tjahjono
- Affiliates: NSF, Tektronix, ISERN
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Summary
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Formal technical review (FTR) is a cornerstone of software quality assurance. However, the labor-intensive and manual nature of review, along with basic unresolved questions about its process and products, means that review is typically under-utilized or inefficiently applied within the software development process.
There are two primary goals for the CSRS research project:
- The design, implementation, and evaluation of a
computer-supported software review system (CSRS) that enables
declarative definition of review processes and provides instrumented
facilities for gathering and analyzing review data. For this goal, our approach has been to incrementally design and evaluate
the CSRS system over a period of several years, along with public
release of the system for use by other research and industry sites.
- The use of CSRS as a laboratory testbed for studying differences between review methods under highly controlled conditions. For this goal, we have carried out one controlled experimental study thus
far, involving a comparison of review methods designed to assess the
impact of the review meeting on review cost and effectiveness. We
further extended this research with a comparative analysis of this
study with a similar study performed by Adam Porter at the University
of Maryland. See the Research References section below for details.
Our results indicate that CSRS increases both the breadth and depth of
information captured per person-hour of review time, and that its
design captures interesting measures of review process, products, and
effort.
Our study of review meetings found that meetings do not significantly
increase defect detection effectiveness, but do increase overall review
costs. Interestingly, our study also found that the student population
studied greatly preferred the meeting-based method over the
non-meeting-based method, and believed that the meeting-based method
led to higher review quality, even though there was no empirical
evidence to support this opinion!
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Software
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No longer available.
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Publications
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Available at the CSRS Publications Area.
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Status
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Complete.
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Keywords
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computer supported software review, inspection |
