Experimental Studies in Software Inspection Process - A Systematic Mapping

Elis Montoro Hernandes, Anderson Belgamo, Sandra Fabbri

2013

Abstract

Background: The interest in produce experimental knowledge about verification and validation techniques increases over the years. This kind of knowledge can be useful for researchers who develop studies in that area as well as for industry that can make decisions about verification and validation activities (V&V) on the basis of experimental results. Aim: This paper aims to map the empirical studies conducted in the software inspection process area. Method: Each step of the Systematic Mapping (SM) process was performed with the support of the StArt tool, and the papers from major databases, journals, conferences, and workshops were covered. Results: Seventy nine papers were accepted in this mapping and helped identifying the inspection processes, techniques and tools commonly referenced in that papers, as well as the artifacts usually inspected and the research groups and universities frequently involved in these papers. Conclusion: Different inspection processes have been investigated through experimental studies, and the Fagan’s process is the most investigated of them. To evaluate these different processes requirements document and source code were the artifacts more used. Besides, different tools and techniques have been used to support these processes. Some important lessons were learned, which are in accordance to explanations of others authors.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Montoro Hernandes E., Belgamo A. and Fabbri S. (2013). Experimental Studies in Software Inspection Process - A Systematic Mapping . In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-59-4, pages 66-76. DOI: 10.5220/0004454000660076

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis13,
author={Elis Montoro Hernandes and Anderson Belgamo and Sandra Fabbri},
title={Experimental Studies in Software Inspection Process - A Systematic Mapping},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2013},
pages={66-76},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004454000660076},
isbn={978-989-8565-59-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Experimental Studies in Software Inspection Process - A Systematic Mapping
SN - 978-989-8565-59-4
AU - Montoro Hernandes E.
AU - Belgamo A.
AU - Fabbri S.
PY - 2013
SP - 66
EP - 76
DO - 10.5220/0004454000660076