ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT:   Software defect testing technology is important means to find and remove software defects. Software defect detection is a part of software inspection process. Software reading techniques could be used by software inspectors in detecting defect from object-oriented design documents. Around the software defect detection, this paper deeply analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of current popular software defect testing technology and the key problems. Traceability-based reading technique was one of the scenario-based reading techniques which had been empirically validated to help software inspectors detect defects more effectively than the widely used checklist based reading technique due to its readability. This study was to discover whether software inspectors with different background can perform defect detection differently using Traceability-based reading technique. The result showed that software inspectors with different undergraduate degrees, undergraduate object oriented courses taken, and object-oriented work experience do not perform defect detection significantly differently.