Date and time: 3:00pm-4:30pm, Wednesday 11th October, 2006
Venue: 300.217
Abstract: Inspections have long been held to be the most cost-effective means of detecting defects in software. Numerous reading techniques have been proposed to further improve their efficacy. However, the development of such techniques has largely ignored theories of software cognition, and as a result conflicts are evident between the two. Some proposed techniques now place greater emphasis on inspections involving multiple sources of information, as a consequence of the effects of object orientation. Empirical evidence suggests that this should lead to a greater understanding of OO systems, and hence higher defect detection rates. Without reconciliation with cognitive theories, though, these approaches may never supplant the status quo.
About the speaker: David Cooper is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology.
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