@Conference{Halling2003a,
  author = {Michael Halling and Stefan Biffl and Paul Grünbacher},
  title = {An Experiment Family to Investigate the Defect Detection Effect of
	Tool-Support for Requirements Inspection},
  booktitle = {Proceedings 9th IEEE Int'l Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 2003),
	3-5 September, Sydney, Australia},
  year = {2003},
  pages = {278-285},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  abstract = {The inspection of software products can help to find defects early
	in the development process and to gather valuable information on
	product quality. An inspection is rather resource-intensive and involves
	several tedious tasks like navigating, sorting, or checking. Tool
	support is thus hoped to increase effectiveness and efficiency. However,
	little empirical work is available that directly compares paper-based
	(i.e., manual) and tool-based software inspections. Existing reports
	on tool support for inspection generally tend to focus on code inspections
	while little can be found on requirements or design inspection. This
	paper reports on an experiment family: two experiments on paper-based
	inspection and a third experiment to empirically investigate the
	effect of tool support regarding defect detection effectiveness and
	inspection effort in an academic environment with 40 subjects. Main
	results of the experiment family are: (a) The effectiveness is similar
	for manual and tool-supported inspections; (b) the inspection effort
	and defect overlap decreased significantly with tool support, while
	(c) efficiency increased considerably with tool support.},
  doi = {10.1109/METRIC.2003.1232474},
  isbn = {0-7695-1987-3},
  researchr = {http://researchr.org/publication/HallingBG03}
}