TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing the cost-effectiveness of inspections by combining project data and expert opinion
AU - Briand, Lionel C.
AU - Freimut, Bernd
AU - Vollei, Ferdinand
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - There is a general agreement among software engineering practitioners that software inspections are an important technique to achieve high software quality at a reasonable cost. However, there are many ways to perform such inspections and many factors that affect their cost-effectiveness. It is therefore important to be able to estimate this cost-effectiveness in order to monitor it, improve it, and convince developers and management that the technology and related investments are worthwhile. This work proposes a rigorous but practical way to do so. In particular, a meaningful model to measure cost-effectiveness is selected and a method to determine the cost-effectiveness by combining project data and expert opinion is proposed. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach, the results of a large-scale industrial case study are presented.
AB - There is a general agreement among software engineering practitioners that software inspections are an important technique to achieve high software quality at a reasonable cost. However, there are many ways to perform such inspections and many factors that affect their cost-effectiveness. It is therefore important to be able to estimate this cost-effectiveness in order to monitor it, improve it, and convince developers and management that the technology and related investments are worthwhile. This work proposes a rigorous but practical way to do so. In particular, a meaningful model to measure cost-effectiveness is selected and a method to determine the cost-effectiveness by combining project data and expert opinion is proposed. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach, the results of a large-scale industrial case study are presented.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0034539092&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISSRE.2000.885866
DO - 10.1109/ISSRE.2000.885866
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034539092
SN - 1071-9458
SP - 124
EP - 135
JO - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE
JF - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE
ER -