Towards an Experiment Line on Software Inspection with Human Computation. Biffl, S., Kalinowski, M., & Winkler, D. In 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry, CESI@ICSE 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 28, pages 21–24, 2018.
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Software inspection is an important approach to find defects in soft-ware engineering (SE) artifacts. While there has been extensive research on traditional software inspection with pen-and-paper materials, modern SE poses new environments, methods, and tools for the cooperation of software engineers. Technologies, such as Human Computation, provide tool support for distributed and tool-mediated work processes. However, there is little empirical experience on how to leverage Human Computation for software inspection. In this vision paper, we present the context for a research program on this topic and introduce the preliminary concept of a theory-based experiment line to allow designing experiment families, that can fit together to answer larger questions than individual experiments. We present an example feature model for such experiment line for Software Inspection with Human Computation and discuss its expected benefits for the research program, including the coordination of the research, design and material reuse, and aggregation facilities.

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