Evaluation of Code Inspection on an Outsourced Software Project in Mauritius

Abstract

Software inspection is a proven methodology that enables the detection and removal of defects in software artifacts and thus contributes towards software quality assurance. It eventually leads to significant budget and time benefits. To be most effective, inspections must be an integral part of the software development life cycle and form part of the development schedule. This study considers code inspection as it is the most frequently used inspection in the software development process. For the implementation part of this research, code inspection is carried out in a selected outsourced project in a company situated in Mauritius, and the results are evaluated based on the inspection process and feedback of people involved in the inspection process. General TermsSoftware Code Inspection.

Framework for Software Code Reviews and Inspections in a Classroom Environment

“…It is also important to adopt measurements to monitor and analyze the success of an inspection. For that, in [16] it is proposed nine key metrics: (i) total KLOC inspected; (ii) average LOC inspected; (iii) average preparation time; (iv) average inspection rate; (v) average effort per KLOC; (vi) average effort fault detected; (vii) average faults detected per KLOC; (viii) percentage of re-inspections; and (ix) defect-removal efficiency.…”