Materials for Teaching Software Inspections

Abstract

This educational materials package was developed for instructors of software verification techniques in graduate and undergraduate software engineering courses, and for those who teach industrial continuing education courses on the meaning and methods of software inspections. Software inspections are a low-tech, highly effective verification technique. Research has consistently shown that the defect detection rate of inspections is higher than that of many traditional testing techniques. This package includes materials for demonstrating how to perform an inspection and also for selling: students on the effectiveness of inspections. It complements EM-5, Scenes from Software Inspections, providing additional background material and exercises for using that set of educational materials.... Metrics, Software processing, Quality assurance, Software verification, Software inspection.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA264273

Entities

People

  • James E. Tomayko
  • James S. Murphy

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Defect Detection
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Education
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Instructors
  • Intellectual Property
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Materials
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Students
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

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  • STEM Education
  • Software Engineering.