In the long run, high quality of software is prerequisite for software companies to survive. Inspections of software products help to detect and remove errors in software development early and cost-effectively. Thus, they help to enhance the quality of software products.
One main goal in practice is, for a given situation, to select a suitable inspection technique. Empirical studies are necessary to make such a selection as they provide real-world data from a documented context.
The results of particular empirical studies, however, are not easily transferable to other situations without knowledge about their situation, their context. Thereby, it is especially unclear to which degree experimental results depend on their context, that is, which context factors influence the results. Insight into experimental results in different contexts can, for example, be gained by repeating, or replicating, experiments in these contexts.
Thus, distributed experiments that are conducted in many different contexts and that systematically measure context factors are especially desirable, as they can improve the generalization of experimental results.
Thereby, about 20 organizations from industry and research collaborate. The first step of the empirical study is a broad survey of software companies to reveal the state of the practice in the areas of inspection process and inspection techniques. Goal of the distributed experiment is to describe where the variations in practice of inspections techniques are and to observe the effectiveness of these inspection techniques with respect to relevant context factors.
From a research perspective, this experiment can help find out how experimental results can be generalized more effectively. Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF. Skip to main content. This service is more advanced with JavaScript available.
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Ciolkowski, M. The purpose of this network is to encourage and support the collaboration and exchange of results and personnel among these groups. Specific emphasis is placed on experimentation and empirical studies with development technologies in different environments; the repetition of experiments across environments; and the development and exchange of methods and tools for model building, experimentation, and assessment.
The long-term expectation is that such cooperation will enable the abstraction and unification of environment-specific results and knowledge with the objective of generating the basic components of our discipline.
It views measurement as essential to the capture and effective reuse of software experience, and assumes the process is a variable based on the characteristics and goals of the project and organization.
This framework views software engineering as a laboratory science which must be supported by the effective cooperation between academia and industry in order to achieve significant improvements. ISERN is open to other academic and industrial groups world-wide which are active in experimental software engineering research and are willing to adopt the experimental framework. There is no membership fee.
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