A Replicate Empirical Comparison between Pair Development and Software Development with Inspection

First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007) Pub Date : 2007-09-20 DOI:10.1109/ESEM.2007.33

Monvorath Phongpaibul, B. Boehm

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In 2005, we studied the development effort and effect of quality comparisons between software development with Fagan's inspection and pair development. Three experiments were conducted in Thailand: two classroom experiments and one industry experiment. We found that in the classroom experiments, the pair development group had less average development effort than the inspection group with the same or higher level of quality. The industry experiment's result showed pair development to have a bit more effort but about 40% fewer major defects. However, since this set of experiments was conducted in Thailand, the results may be different if we conducted the experiment in other countries due to the impact of cultural differences. To investigate this we conducted another experiment with computer science graduate students at USC in Fall 2006. Unfortunately, the majority of the graduate students who participated in the experiment were from India, a country in which the culture is not much different from Thailand. As a result, we cannot compare the impact of cultural differences in this paper. However, the results showed that the experiment can be replicated in other countries where the cultures are similar.

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结对开发与带检查的软件开发的重复经验比较

在2005年，我们研究了Fagan检查和结对开发软件开发之间的质量比较的开发工作量和效果。在泰国进行了三个实验:两个课堂实验和一个工业实验。我们发现，在课堂实验中，结对开发组的平均开发工作量比具有相同或更高质量水平的检查组要少。工业实验的结果表明，结对开发付出了更多的努力，但主要缺陷减少了约40%。但是，由于这组实验是在泰国进行的，如果我们在其他国家进行实验，由于文化差异的影响，结果可能会有所不同。为了调查这个问题，我们在2006年秋天与南加州大学的计算机科学研究生进行了另一个实验。不幸的是，大多数参加实验的研究生都来自印度，一个与泰国文化没有太大区别的国家。因此，我们无法在本文中比较文化差异的影响。然而，结果表明，这个实验可以在其他文化相似的国家复制。

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