Software Defects: Stay Away from Them. Do Inspections!

Author

Horta Travassos, Guilherme

Author_Institution

CNPq, Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

23-26 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

All software system fails. However, as more defects the development team can identify and remove as lower will be the probability of software to fail. Identifying and removing defects throughout the software development process represent an important approach to improve software quality. There is evidence about the feasibility, efficiency and efficacy of using software inspections to support the identification of defects. Besides their low cost, the performance of inspections can be positively influenced by the technique used to detect defects. Despite all these benefits, the use of inspections is not common place in the software industry. Therefore, this Quatic 2014 keynote speech intends to discuss the benefits of Software Inspections (the method and techniques) and their use in software projects.

Keywords

program debugging; program testing; project management; software development management; software houses; software quality; Quatic 2014 keynote speech; software defect identification; software defect removal; software development process; software industry; software inspections; software projects; software quality improvement; software system failure; Context; Industries; Inspection; Productivity; Software quality; Testing; Evidence Based Software Engineering; Experimentation; Reading Techniques; Software Inspections;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), 2014 9th International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Guimaraes

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6132-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QUATIC.2014.8

Filename

6984087