Testing is an essential part of an agile process as test is automated and tends to take the role of specifications in place of documents. However, whenever test cases are faulty, developers’ time might be wasted to fix problems that do not actually originate in the production code. Because of their relevance in agile processes, we posit that the quality of test cases can be assured through soft...

Inspections and testing represent core techniques to ensure reliable software. Inspections also seem to have a positive effect on predictability, total costs and delivery time. This paper presents a case study of inspections and testing, done at the Ericsson development department outside Oslo in Norway. This department develops and maintains customer-defined services around AXE phone switches,...

Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that NLP can be used to impr...

Since its inception into software engineering, software inspection has been viewed as a costeffective way of increasing software quality. Despite this, many questions remain unanswered regarding, for example, ideal team size or cost effectiveness. This paper addresses some of these questions by performing an analysis using 30 published data sets from empirical experiments of software inspection...

BACKGROUND Iran, a newly industrializing country in Middle East, has a workforce of 25 million people. Most employees are working in agriculture, manufacturing, services, construction, commerce sectors, carpet weaving and mining. This article aims to explore the improvement of occupational harmful agents in workplaces due to implement "prioritize inspections". METHODS In 2012, the system of "...

The need for unambiguous, easy-to-understand notations for specifying and analyzing the requirements of systems is widely recognized. Tables have been demonstrated to offer a precise, relatively compact notation for specifying system requirements in a wide range of applications, including avionics systems, systems for controlling nuclear power plants, and telephone networks (see, for example, [...

The need for unambiguous, easy-to-understand notations for specifying and analyzing the requirements of systems is widely recognized. Tables have been demonstrated to offer a precise, relatively compact notation for specifying system requirements in a wide range of applications, including avionics systems, systems for controlling nuclear power plants, and telephone networks (see, for example, [...

This paper tries to establish a framework for sampling inspections by attributes based on soft quality standards in order to pay more attention to some shortcomings in classical modelling concerning the acceptability of inspection lots. As a suggestion such sampling inspections are described in terms of a statistical test with fuzzy hypothesis and fuzzy data, extending the classical framework o...