Experience with inspection in ultralarge-scale development

Russell, Greg

doi:10.1109/52.62929

Cited by 138 publications

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“…Ten years later, in 1986 [8], Fagan suggests slight modifications to the inspection process and reports further industrial experiences that support his earlier results. In [19] Russell describes similar experiences with the inspection in ultralarge-scale developments.…”

Section: Code Inspectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

COMPASS: A comprehensible assertion method

Bonnier¹,

Heyer

1997

TAPSOFT '97: Theory and Practice of Software Development

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Abstract. We present an approach for automatically generating relevant, focused questions to be asked during code inspection sessions. The method is based on Hoare-logic. The novel key idea is the introduction of informal predicates, which, though not having a formal definition, may have a perfectly legal and unique informal interpretation. Such predicates make it easier to express requirements in terms of assertions, while still allowing for the automatic derivation of verification conditions. Moreover, informal predicates enable reasoning about assertions and verifying verification conditions at a level which is suitable for man rather than machine.

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Section: Code Inspectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

COMPASS: A comprehensible assertion method

Bonnier¹,

Heyer

1997

TAPSOFT '97: Theory and Practice of Software Development

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“…Since then, data has been collected showing the benefits of inspections, both in quality and cost [Rus91,Gil94,Gra94,Wel93]. Many experiments have been conducted to study the effect of various factors on the effectiveness of inspections ( e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Overcoming the NAH syndrome for inspection deployment

Jalote¹,

Haragopal²

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering

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ABSTRACT:Despite considerable evidence to show that inspections can help reduce costs and improve quality, inspections are not widely deployed in the software industry. One of the likely reasons for this is the "not applicable here (NAH)" syndrome -developers and managers believe that in their environment, inspections will not provide the benefits seen by other organizations. One of the big challenges for deploying inspections is to overcome this syndrome. In this report, we describe two experiments that can be conducted, with little effort, in an organization to obtain data from the organization to build a case for inspections. By conducting one of these experiments, we were able to effectively overcome the NAH syndrome in our organizationmany developers and managers are now ready to try inspections in their projects. Though the purpose of the experiment was to overcome the syndrome, the data from the experiment also shows how code inspections compare with unit testing in terms of defect detection capability, and the effect of inspections on the overall cost of development.

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“…Russell [10] reports a similar return of 33 hours of maintenance saved for every hour of inspection.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…The cost-effectiveness of inspections in uncovering defects has been well discussed in the literature [3,10,11].…”

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confidence: 99%

Towards a problem-driven approach to perspective-based reading

Chen

Poon²,

Tang³

et al.

7th IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering, 2002. Proceedings.

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The quality of a requirements specification has a great impact on the quality of the software developed. Because of this, a requirements specification should be complete, correct, consistent, and unambiguous. Otherwise, defects may remain undetected, resulting In this paper, we propose a problem-driven approach for supporting the PBR technique. We also discuss the experience of applying our proposal to a real-life requirements specification.

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Experience with inspection in ultralarge-scale development

Cited by 138 publications

References 4 publications

COMPASS: A comprehensible assertion method

COMPASS: A comprehensible assertion method

Overcoming the NAH syndrome for inspection deployment

Towards a problem-driven approach to perspective-based reading

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