An Explanation Model for Quality Improvement Effect of Peer Reviews

Author

Komuro, Mutsumi ; Komoda, Norihisa

Author_Institution

Eng. Support Center, Hitachi Software Eng., Hitachi, Japan

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1159

Lastpage

1164

Abstract

Through the analysis of Rayleigh model, an explanation model on the quality effect of peer reviews is constructed. The review activities are evaluated by the defect removal rate at each phase. We made Hypotheses on how these measurements are related to the product quality. These Hypotheses are verified through regression analysis of actual project data and concrete calculation formulae are obtained as a model. This explanation model can be used to (1) evaluate the effect of peer review, especially the upper steam review quantitatively, (2) make concrete review plan and to set objective values for review activities, (3) evaluate the effect of each peer review activity or method.

Keywords

object-oriented methods; project management; software maintenance; software quality; statistical distributions; Rayleigh model; defect removal rate; peer reviews; quality improvement; regression analysis; Concrete; Density measurement; Information systems; Inspection; Performance analysis; Phase measurement; Predictive models; Software engineering; Systems engineering and theory; Testing; Improvement Effect; Peer Review; Process Improvement; Quality; Quantitative Management; Statistical Model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control & Automation, 2008 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3514-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIMCA.2008.187

Filename

5172789