An encompassing life cycle centric survey of software inspection

An Automated Approach to Specification-Based Program Inspection

“…The essence of the technique is to detect errors in programs by human inspectors through reading and analyzing programs, based on some criteria. Many researchers have contributed to the progress of the technology by establishing various reading techniques [2,3,4,5] and inspection processes [6,7,8], but most of the existing techniques do not take formal speci…cation into account in program inspection, simply because formal speci…cation is not available in most industrial software development projects. With the continual development of formal methods, however, many industrial sectors have gradually adopted formal speci…cation techniques [9,10,11,12].…”

An empirical study on groupware support for software inspection meetings

“…The document size and defect density were somewhat above the levels from other reported experiments [1], but not particularly high compared to documents in industrial settings [8]. Moreover, we used inspection activities that had been implemented in a number of professional development environments [19].…”

An experimental comparison of checklist-based reading and perspective-based reading for UML design document inspection

“…Inspections have been extensively investigated through controlled experiments in university environment and industry case studies. However, in most cases software inspections have been used for defect detection in documents of conventional structured development process, such as functional requirement documents or code modules [1,13,15,20]. There is a significant lack of information about how inspections should be applied to Object-Oriented (subsequently denoted OO) artefacts, such as OO code and design diagrams, because inspections were developed when the structured development process was dominant.…”

“…The most popular are Ad hoc and Checklist-based reading (subsequently denoted CBR) [13] techniques. The Ad hoc reading technique does not provide any instructions for the inspector on how to proceed during defect detection activity.…”

“…Several variants of scenario-based reading have been proposed: Defect-based reading [15], Reading technique based on function points [5] and Perspective-based reading (subsequently denoted PBR) [1,12,13,14]. The Defect-based reading concentrates on specific defect classes.…”