Can Clone Detection Support Quality Assessments of Requirements Specifications?\titlenoteThis work has partially been supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the project Quamoco (01 IS 08023F and 01 IS 08023B).
Table 3: Study Results: Consequences
['[BOLD] S', '[BOLD] blow-up [words]', '[BOLD] read. [m]', '[BOLD] insp. [h]', '[BOLD] S', '[BOLD] blow-up [words]', '[BOLD] read. [m]', '[BOLD] insp. [h]']
Specification Reading Cloning in specifications obviously increases specification size and, hence, affects all activities that involve reading the specification documents. While this does not appear to be a lot, one needs to consider that quality assurance techniques like inspections usually assume a significantly lower processing rate. Hence, the average additional time spent on inspections of the analyzed SRS is expected to be about 6 hours. In a typical inspection meeting with 3 participants, this amounts to 2.25 person days. For specification AB that has a blow-up of 21,993 words, the additional effort is expected to be greater than 13 person days if three inspectors are applied.