Evidence of software inspection on feature specification for software product lines

Souza, Iuri Santos; Gomes, Gecynalda Soares da Silva; Neto, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira; Machado, Ivan; Almeida, Eduardo Santana de; Meira, Sílvio Romero de Lemos

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2012.11.044

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“…The study covers the review of inspection tools up to 1995, so there is need to incorporate the tools which developed later to this review study. Souza et.al, (2013) [23] in their research includes six software engineers and uses Fagan's and Gilb's inspection methodology with the roles of moderator, reviewer, author, and reader. The aim of this study is to inspect the product line process in the software organization.…”

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A Comparative Study of Software Inspection Techniques for Quality Perspective

Qazi¹,

Shahzadi²,

Humayun³

2016

IJMECS

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Software inspection is useful to detect the defects in any stage software development methodology especially in early stages. Inspection of software defects can improve the software product quality by decreasing rework cost and time from documents, code, and other deliverables. The objective of this study is to identify existing software inspection techniques which help practitioners and software engineers to improve the software quality and to compare them according to some quality attributes. Rather than proposing new techniques we focus on synthesize the existing approaches. A comparison of some approaches is conducted and analyzed which approach is more feasible for the detection of defects. The results of this study show that there are many formal and informal techniques available in literature related software inspection, it is difficult to say well to one of them, but our analysis focused on finding such techniques which cover maximum quality factors in an inspection. Software inspection is an umbrella activity of whole software development life cycle and we found different approaches and frameworks in software inspection which can full fill our desired parameters to improve software quality.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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A Comparative Study of Software Inspection Techniques for Quality Perspective

Qazi¹,

Shahzadi²,

Humayun³

2016

IJMECS

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“…In addition, we applied the inspection activity to verify and validate the artifacts generated in both disciplines (Souza et al, 2013).…”

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“…In this case, after the inspection (Souza et al, 2013), the suggested changes were incorporated into the templates to specify features, requirements, and use cases.…”

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Software product line scoping and requirements engineering in a small and medium-sized enterprise: An industrial case study

Silva

Neto²,

O’Leary

et al. 2014

Journal of Systems and Software

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Software Product Line (SPL) engineering has been applied in several domains, especially in large-scale software development. Given the benefits experienced and reported, SPL engineering has increasingly garnered interest from small to medium-sized companies. It is possible to find a wide range of studies reporting on the challenges of running a SPL project in large companies. However, very little reports exist that consider the situation for small to medium-sized enterprises and these studies try develop universal truths for SPL without lessons learned from empirical evidence need to be contextualized. This study is a step towards bridging this gap in contextual evidence by characterizing the weaknesses discovered in the Scoping (SC) and Requirements (RE) disciplines of SPL. Moreover, in this study we conducted a case study in a Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) to justify the use of agile methods when introducing the SPL SC and RE disciplines through the characterization of their bottlenecks. The results of the characterization indicated that ineffective communication and collaboration, long iteration cycles, and the absence of adaptability and flexibility can increase the effort and reduce motivation during project development. These issues can be mitigated by agile methods.

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“…It is essential that developers become aware of inspections to iteratively improve the quality of a software product (Anda and Sjøberg, 2002;Souza et al, 2013).…”

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Defect Types and Software Inspection Techniques: A Systematic Mapping Study

OliveiraJr¹,

Geraldi²

2017

Journal of Computer Science

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Software inspection has been used to guarantee and control the quality of products by detecting defects, which can be spread out throughout the entire software life cycle. Therefore, the main premise is to identify and reduce the number of defect types in software artifacts during inspections. This work focuses on providing an up to dated overview of existing defects in the context of software inspection techniques. A systematic mapping was carried out, from which 2096 primary studies were retrieved and 32 were final selected. From the analysis, classification and aggregation of the retrieved studies, important different defect types were identified. Most studies encompass defect types by means of experiments and proposed techniques and approaches. Thus, as a main result, the identification of several different studies with distinct proposals concerned on defect types is evident. Although researchers have conducted studies over time, a general pattern on the detection of defects could not be established. Therefore, the scenario in which this study was carried out provides researchers with the capability of conducting further research in a motivating and challenging research topic, as well as practitioners with the adoption of empirically evaluated inspection techniques and respective defect types.

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Evidence of software inspection on feature specification for software product lines

Cited by 10 publications

References 17 publications

A Comparative Study of Software Inspection Techniques for Quality Perspective

A Comparative Study of Software Inspection Techniques for Quality Perspective

Software product line scoping and requirements engineering in a small and medium-sized enterprise: An industrial case study

Defect Types and Software Inspection Techniques: A Systematic Mapping Study

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