Exploring the Influence of Belbin Role Types on Code Fault Detection

The study explores the influence of Belbin’s Theory in the software testing task, particularly with the static code review technique. To create the experimental context of the review process, a code was designed with a set of injected faults which was used by the experimental subjects, Software Engineering students, during a work session. The results of the experiment do not show significant differences neither in the efficiency index obtained by the subjects in the testing process, nor with the confusion index of the faults. The reflection on the part of the researchers forces them to carry out a short-term analysis of the faults injected into the code in order to obtain a better version of the experimental object, with which a second controlled experiment can be carried out with under less restrictive conditions and a larger sample.