Monitoring Software Inspections with Prescriptive Metrics
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It is largely accepted that inspection is the most effective means of finding defects, and thus plays an important role in the software development process. This paper therefore focuses on inspection, its evaluation and improvement, and presents a set of prescriptive software metrics for evaluating software inspections. The usability of the metrics is further illustrated with a case study involving a Finnish software company.
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