CAREER: Empirical Investigations of Software Inspections

职业：软件检查的实证研究

• 批准号: 9501354
• 负责人: Adam Porter
• 金额: $ 12.53万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-07-01 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9501354&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Empirical; Investigations; Software; Inspections

This CAREER award supports research and instruction in the empirical evaluation of software inspection methods. Software inspection is a widely used, but very expensive validation process. Initial research has demonstrated that many of the assumptions underlying this process are incorrect and, therefore, this research involves the following three families of experiments. (1) Comparing defect detection techniques. This experiment compares the cost-effectiveness of systematic inspection techniques with that of the standard Ad Hoc and Checklist approaches. Its hypothesis is that systematic inspection techniques are more effective that the nonsystematic ones currently being used. (2) Cost-benefit studies. This experiment is conducted on a live development project to compare the tradeoffs between minimum inspection interval and maximum effectiveness for several different inspection approaches. Its hypothesis is that several recently proposed methods significantly increase interval, but provide only a slight improvement in effectiveness. (3) Inspection entry criteria. This experiment attempts to establish whether or not an artifact's quality affects inspection effectiveness. Its hypothesis is that traditional inspections are not effective for artifacts with very high or very low defect density. This research is also producing materials that enhance both graduate and undergraduate teaching. This includes a 4-week teaching module in which students perform experiments, collect and analyze data, and test hypotheses as part of a graduate software engineering course. An undergraduate software development course is being developed in which all students work together to develop one large-scale application, for real customers with real needs.

该职业奖支持软件检查方法实证评估的研究和指导。 软件检查是一种广泛使用但非常昂贵的验证过程。 初步研究表明，该过程背后的许多假设都是不正确的，因此，本研究涉及以下三个实验系列。 (1) 缺陷检测技术比较。 该实验将系统检查技术与标准临时检查表方法的成本效益进行了比较。 它的假设是系统检查技术比目前使用的非系统检查技术更有效。 (2)成本效益研究。 该实验是在实时开发项目上进行的，目的是比较几种不同检查方法的最小检查间隔和最大有效性之间的权衡。 它的假设是，最近提出的几种方法显着增加了间隔，但仅在有效性方面提供了轻微的改进。 （三）检验准入标准。 该实验试图确定工件的质量是否会影响检查的有效性。 它的假设是，传统的检查对于缺陷密度非常高或非常低的工件无效。 这项研究还制作了可增强研究生和本科生教学的材料。 这包括为期 4 周的教学模块，学生在其中进行实验、收集和分析数据以及测试假设，作为研究生软件工程课程的一部分。 正在开发一门本科软件开发课程，所有学生将共同开发一个大型应用程序，以满足真正需要的客户。