A Practical Approach for Quality-Driven Inspections

Author

Denger, Christian ; Shull, Forrest

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Exp. Software Eng.

Volume

24

Issue

2

fYear

2007

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

86

Abstract

Software inspection is a rigorous process for validating software work products that´s both efficient and cost effective. However, this process presents challenges that might keep software developers from continuing to implement inspections. From our experience, major reasons for this are poor or missing customization of inspections for given context characteristics and insufficient stakeholder involvement. The TAQtIC (Tailoring Approach for Quality-Driven Inspections) inspection approach lets organizations implement inspections in a sustainable way in a given organizational context. Practitioners can use TAQtIC´s underlying concepts to customize inspections for their environment. Experiences from projects using this approach demonstrate how organizations can tailor inspections of their software products

Keywords

inspection; project management; software quality; TAQtIC; Tailoring Approach for Quality-Driven Inspections; customized inspections; quality-driven inspections; rigorous review process; software inspection; software work products; Context; Couplings; Debugging; Guidelines; Inspection; Personnel; Software engineering; Software quality; Technological innovation; Testing; TAQtIC; inspections and walkthroughs; perspective-based reading; quality-driven inspections; software quality; software validation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2007.31

Filename

4118655