Title :
Improving software quality: the use of formal inspections at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
After surveying detection practices in the best of industry, JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Software Product Assurance decided that the most cost-effective early defect detection technique was the Fagan inspection procedure. The author describes this technique, how it was introduced to JPL, some of the difficulties involved in transferring technology, and the first provisional set of results
Keywords :
quality control; software reliability; technology transfer; Fagan inspection procedure; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; formal inspections; software quality; software reliability; transferring technology; Computer industry; Inspection; Laboratories; Management training; Meeting planning; Phase detection; Propulsion; Software design; Software quality; Software systems; Software testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, 1990. Proceedings., 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nice
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2026-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICSE.1990.63623
