About the Author |
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About the Technical Reviewer |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Introduction |
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1.1 Software Quality, Software Reviews and Inspections |
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1.2.1 Organization of This Book |
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1.2.2 Intended Audience and How to Use This Book |
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Chapter 2 Software Review Procedures |
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2.1 A Generic Software Review Procedure |
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2.2 Fagan Inspection and Extensions |
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2.2.2 Extensions to Fagan Inspection |
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2.3 Active Design Review and Extensions |
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2.3.1 Active Design Review |
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2.3.2 Extensions to the Active Design Review |
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2.4 Other Types of Reviews |
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2.5 Factors Impacting Software Reviews |
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Chapter 3 Basic Software Reading Techniques |
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3.1 Introduction to Software Reading |
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3.1.1 Definition of Software Reading |
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3.1.2 Purposes of Software Reading |
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3.1.3 Taxonomy of Software Reading Techniques |
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3.3 Checklist-Based Reading |
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3.3.1 Checklist Definition, Types, and Examples |
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3.3.2 Checklists with Guidance |
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3.3.3 Best Practices of Checklists |
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3.3.4 Empirical Experiences |
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Chapter 4 Scenario-Based Reading Techniques |
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4.1 Principles of Scenario-Based Reading |
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4.2.1 Taxonomy of Defects in Requirements Specifications |
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4.2.2 Defect-Based Reading Techniques |
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4.2.3 Empirical Experiences |
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4.3 Perspective-Based Reading |
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4.3.1 A Generic Perspective-Based Reading |
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4.3.2 Perspective-Based Requirements Reading |
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4.3.3 Perspective-Based Design Reading |
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4.3.4 Perspective-Based Code Reading |
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4.3.5 Perspective-Based Usability Reading |
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4.3.6 Why Does Perspective-Based Reading Work? |
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4.4 Alternative Partitioning of Reading Responsibilities |
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4.4.2 Function Point-Based Partition |
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Chapter 5 Requirements Reading Techniques |
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5.1 Critical Roles of Requirements in Software Development |
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5.2 A Combined Reading Technique for Requirements |
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5.2.1 Motivations for a Combined Reading |
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5.2.2 The Combined-Reading Technique |
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5.2.3 Empirical Experiences |
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5.3 Test-Case Driven Reading for Requirements |
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5.3.1 Test-Case-Driven Reading Technique |
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5.3.2 Empirical Experiences |
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5.4 Individual Factors Impacting Requirements Reading Efficiency |
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Chapter 6 Design Reading Techniques |
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6.2.1 Usage-Based Reading Technique |
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6.2.2 Variations of Usage-Based Reading |
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6.2.3 Empirical Experiences |
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6.3 Traceability-Based Reading |
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6.3.1 Types of Design Defects |
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6.3.2 High-Level OO Designs Using UML Diagrams |
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6.3.3 Traceability-Based Reading Techniques |
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6.3.4 Empirical Experiences |
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6.4.1 What Is Software Architecture? |
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6.4.2 Traceability-Based Architecture Reading |
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6.4.3 Empirical Experiences |
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6.4.4 Other Architecture Reading Techniques |
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6.5.1 What Is an Application Framework? |
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6.5.2 Scope-Based Reading Techniques |
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6.5.3 Empirical Experiences |
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Chapter 7 Code Reading Techniques |
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7.1 Code Reading As a Professional Skill |
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7.1.1 Importance of Code Reading |
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7.1.2 How Do People Read Code? |
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7.2 Reading by Stepwise Abstraction |
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7.3 Object-Oriented Code Reading |
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7.3.1 Challenges of Object-Oriented Code Reading |
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7.3.2 Abstraction-Driven Reading |
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7.3.3 Use-Case-Driven Reading |
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7.3.4 Empirical Experiences |
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7.4 Object-Oriented Framework Code Reading |
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7.4.1 Why Yet Another Object-Oriented Code Reading Technique? |
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7.4.2 Functionality-Based Approach to Framework Understanding |
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7.4.3 Functionality-Based Reading |
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7.4.4 Empirical Experiences |
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7.5 Task-Directed Inspection |
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7.6 Code Readability Factors |
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Chapter 8 Conclusion |
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Index |
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