Usage-Based Reading

Research Question

What are the expected effects from Usage-Based Reading inspection technique when it is applied for inspecting high-level design artifacts produced in analysis phase of software development?

Search String

"Usage-Based Reading"

Inclusion Criteria

• Inspection of high-level design artifacts

Exclusion Criteria

• Non-experimental papers
• Studies not in English

• An experimental comparison of usage-based and checklist-based reading
• A replicated experiment of usage-based and checklist-based reading
• Usage-based reading—an experiment to guide reviewers with use cases
• Investigating the effect of expert ranking of use cases for design inspection

• Investigating the effect of expert ranking of use cases for design inspection
• Study Type : Quasi Experiment
• Quality evaluation
• Evidence
• An experimental comparison of usage-based and checklist-based reading
• Study Type : Quasi Experiment
• Quality evaluation
• Evidence
• Usage-based reading—an experiment to guide reviewers with use cases
• Study Type : Quasi Experiment
• Quality evaluation
• Evidence
• A replicated experiment of usage-based and checklist-based reading
• Study Type : Quasi Experiment
• Quality evaluation
• Evidence

• replicated studies
• Evidence based on the paper "Usage-based reading—an experiment to guide reviewers with use cases"
• Evidence based on the paper "A replicated experiment of usage-based and checklist-based reading"
• Result
• all evidence
• Evidence based on the paper "Usage-based reading—an experiment to guide reviewers with use cases"
• Evidence based on the paper "A replicated experiment of usage-based and checklist-based reading"
• Evidence based on the paper "Investigating the effect of expert ranking of use cases for design inspection"
• Evidence based on the paper "An experimental comparison of usage-based and checklist-based reading"
• Result
• all evidence video
• Evidence based on the paper "Usage-based reading—an experiment to guide reviewers with use cases"
• Evidence based on the paper "A replicated experiment of usage-based and checklist-based reading"
• Evidence based on the paper "Investigating the effect of expert ranking of use cases for design inspection"
• Evidence based on the paper "An experimental comparison of usage-based and checklist-based reading"
• Result

Research question

Overall the studies show an improvement on the number of faults identified and the effectiveness and efficiency of the inspectors.

The positive results seems to be more consistent for effectiveness and efficiency than number of defects. For all three variables, crucial faults seems to have the least consistent results among the four studies - with a low belief value-, although it has the strongest intensity (most positive effect). Interestingly enough this is the type of fault which the UBR technique should have most impact. The aggregated results indicate that this is the case with the strongest intensity, however it not consistent among studies.

replicated studies

all evidence

The positive results seems to be more consistent for effectiveness and efficiency than number of defects. For all three variables, crucial faults seems to have the least consistent results among the four studies - with a low belief value-, although it has the strongest intensity (most positive effect). Interestingly enough this is the type of fault which the UBR technique should have most impact. The aggregated results indicate that this is the case with the strongest intensity, however it not consistent among studies.

all evidence video

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