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An Experimental Evaluation of an Experience-Based Capture-Recapture Method in Software Code Inspections

Runeson, Per LU orcid and Wohlin, Claes LU (1998) In Empirical Software Engineering 3(4). p.381-406
Abstract
In order to improve the efficiency of inspections, quantitative data on defect content have to be the basis for decisions in the inspection process. An experience-based capture-recapture method is proposed, which overcomes some problems with the basic pre-requisites of the original method. A C-code inspection experiment is conducted to evaluate the enhanced method and its applicability to software code inspections. It is concluded that the experience-based estimation procedure gives significantly better estimates than the maximum-likelihood method and the estimates are not very sensitive to changes in the inspection data.
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1573-7616
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10.1023/A:1009728205264
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  doi          = {{10.1023/A:1009728205264}},
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