1 Introduction Inspections, a proven quality improvement approach [3, 7], are a process where a team of skilled individuals review a software artifact (e.g., requirements specification document) to identify faults. Traditional fault-based software inspections (like Fault Checklist inspection) focus inspectors' attention on different type of faults (e.g., incorrect or incomplete or ambiguous req...

Software inspections are an effective method for achieving high quality software. We hypothesize that inspections focused on identifying errors (i.e., root cause of faults) are better at finding requirements faults when compared to inspection methods that rely on checklists created using lessons-learned from historical fault-data. Our previous work verified that, error based inspections guided ...

CCC-r chart extended approach of CCC charts, is a technique applied when nonconforming items are rarely observed. However, it is usually assumed that the inspection process is perfect in the implementation control charts imperfect inspections may have a significant impact on the performance of the control chart and setting the control limits. This paper first investigates the ...

While inspections are a valuable tool for software quality assurance, inspection models are labour intensive, require knowledge of all errors in a software product, make questionable assumptions, and do not capture the experience of inspectors. In this paper we describe a novel inspection model based on Bayesian belief networks that overcomes many of these problems. We describe the problems whi...

An inspection is regarded by software developers as an efficient method for finding errors. Unfortunately companies do not necessarily have the power to implement inspection efficiently. Why we have started a project in order to find a suitable way to carry out inspections in four companies. This paper illustrates our plans and early experiments with two companies.

Abstract The assessment of the performance inspection strategies is a crucial element in design phase product quality inspections manufacturing companies. aspects that designers need to consider include: (1) typology inspection, (2) variables involved, (3) potential interaction between and (4) presence errors. In particular, low-volume critical due lack historical data inadequacy traditional st...

Optimizing the quality of software is a function of the degree of reviews made during the early life of a software development process. Reviews detect errors and potential errors early in the software development process. The errors detected during the early life cycle of software are least expensive to correct. Efficient involvement in software inspections and technical reviews, help developer...

Software inspections have proved to be an effective means to find faults in different software artifacts, and the application of software inspections on requirements specifications is believed to give a high return on investment as problems are caught early. However, despite the existing evidence of positive effects requirements inspections are not a common practice in industry. The reason is b...

Complex software systems often fail because of errors undiscovered in the design stage of the development process. Detecting these errors early in the process would eliminate many downstream problems. The so-called capture-recapture model used by biologists in estimating the size of wildlife populations has also been used to estimate the number of software design errors. However, one simplifyin...