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Software Group Reviews and the Impact of Procedural Roles on Defect Detection Performance

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This thesis addresses two main issues in software inspection-the need for review meetings and the use of roles in meetings. An overview of the research rationale, methodology, results and conclusions is presented in this paper.

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    Lesley Pek Wee Land

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Land, L.P.W. Software Group Reviews and the Impact of Procedural Roles on Defect Detection Performance. Empirical Software Engineering 7, 77–79 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014875111008

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