An Experimental Evaluation of an Experience-Based Capture-Recapture Method in Software Code Inspections

Per Runeson, Claes Wohlin

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Abstract

In order to improve the efficiency of inspections, quantitative data on defect content have to be the basis for decisions in the inspection process. An experience-based capture-recapture method is proposed, which overcomes some problems with the basic pre-requisites of the original method. A C-code inspection experiment is conducted to evaluate the enhanced method and its applicability to software code inspections. It is concluded that the experience-based estimation procedure gives significantly better estimates than the maximum-likelihood method and the estimates are not very sensitive to changes in the inspection data.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)381-406
Number of pages26
JournalEmpirical Software Engineering
Volume3
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1998

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Software Engineering

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