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An Overview of Experimental Studies on Software Inspection Process

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Software inspection process is an effective activity to find defects on software artifacts as soon as they are introduced. The development of experimental knowledge on this area is useful to everyone who needs to make decisions about inspection activity. This paper aims to map the empirical studies conducted in the software inspection process area. The steps of the Systematic Mapping (SM) process was performed with the support of the StArt tool. Seventy nine papers were accepted in this SM and attributes related to inspection process, techniques, tools, inspected artifacts, research groups and universities were extracted. The results show different inspection processes, which have been experimentally investigated. Fagan’s process is the most investigated of them. In relation to inspected artifacts, requirements document and source code were the most used. Moreover, different tools and techniques have been used to support these processes.

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Our thanks to the Brazilian funding agencies CAPES and CNPq and INEP (Observatório da Educação, project 3280). E.M.H thanks CAPES foundation (BEX 11833/12-2).

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    Elis Montoro Hernandes, Anderson Belgamo & Sandra Fabbri

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Hernandes, E.M., Belgamo, A., Fabbri, S. (2014). An Overview of Experimental Studies on Software Inspection Process. In: Hammoudi, S., Cordeiro, J., Maciaszek, L., Filipe, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 190. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09492-2_8

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