Title :
Software detailed technical reviews: finding and using defects
Author_Institution :
Disciplined Software Consulting, Agoura Hills, CA, USA
Abstract :
Why do so many people think that faster means poorer quality? Probably because we have all experienced “The faster I go, the behinder I get.” It is possible to develop better software faster and less expensively! Yes, software can be better or developed faster or both. Detailed technical reviews (DTRs) enable teams to discover and remove defects early so they deliver better software faster. The paper explains why DTRs enable developing better software faster and how to perform DTRs. It provides the short answers to the who, what, when, where, why, and how of DTRs. M. Fagan (1976) invented inspections for software products, using ideas from hardware engineering. DTRs have also been used on hardware products as well as on operational procedures
Keywords :
software fault tolerance; software quality; software reviews; DTRs; defects; hardware engineering; inspections; operational procedures; software detailed technical reviews; software products; Computer bugs; Costs; Debugging; Delay; Electrical capacitance tomography; Hardware; Inspection; Project management; Software performance; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Wescon/97. Conference Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4303-4
DOI :
10.1109/WESCON.1997.632327
