Title :
Experimental evaluation of the cost effectiveness of software reviews
Author :
Kusumoto, Shinji ; Matsumoto, Ken-ichi ; Kikuno, Tohru ; Torii, Koji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Osaka Univ., Toyonaka, Japan
Abstract :
A new metric for evaluating the cost effectiveness of technical reviews is described. The proposed metric is based on the degree to which testing costs are reduced by technical reviews. The metric can be interpreted as combining two conventional metrics. Using an experimental evaluation of the conventional metrics and the proposed metric for data collected in an industrial environment, the authors show the validity and usefulness of the proposed metric. In particular, they present a method to estimate a value of the proposed metric by using only the values obtained at review phase
Keywords :
software metrics; cost effectiveness; software metrics; software reviews; technical reviews; Cellular neural networks; Costs; Documentation; Fault detection; Phase estimation; Productivity; Programming; Software reviews; Software standards; Software testing;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1991. COMPSAC '91., Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2152-4
DOI :
10.1109/CMPSAC.1991.170216
