Inspection data is difficult to gather and interpret. At AT&T Bell Laboratories, the authors have defined nine key metrics that software project managers can use to plan, monitor, and improve inspections. Graphs of these metrics expose problems early ...
This paper presents the idea of modeling transparent network simulations to realize the communication system by using interactive network simulation technology. An interactive network simulation can be built based on High Level Architecture (HLA). With ...
Levelized Compiled Code (LCC) multi-delay simulation is an idea whose time has come. Although it is not a new idea, when it was first proposed the hardware and software technology of the time was not capable of meeting the demands of such a simulation ...
Fatma Mili
This paper reports on a digital video interactive (DVI) system used for teaching code inspection. Code inspection is a review/debugging technique; it consists of meetings where the code reviewed is read and discussed with respect to a number of criteria. After explaining the use of DVI in general and its use for code inspection in particular, the author gives an overview of the system components. They include a training session, a library, an inspection preparation, and an inspection simulation. The rest of the paper describes the simulation component. This description covers a number of aspects, including what images and conversations are initially stored and how they are combined, adapted to interactive situations, and played back. These tasks do pose challenging problems. This paper left me frustrated due to the selection of problems that the author chose to address and the relative importance they were given. For instance, he uses a half-page picture of a person with her mirror image to explain that mirror images of actors are generated rather than stored. Almost a complete page is used to provide three versions of the same production rule (English, Ops/83, and pseudocode). With many instances like this, no space is left in this 11-page paper for technical and more general issues.
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