Prioritized Use Cases as a Vehicle for Software Inspections

Principles from software inspections, use cases and operational profile testing are combined into the usage-based reading technique (UBR). The goal is to provide an efficient reading technique for software inspections, which takes the user viewpoint on the software and the faults it may contain. The user reads, for example, a design document guided by prioritized use cases. An experimental evaluation shows that the UBR method is more effective and efficient in finding faults, critical to the user, compared to checklist-based methods. Introduction Software inspections have achieved quite some interest, since its first presentation by Michael Fagan in 1976 [1]. Inspection is a static verification and validation technique, which can be applied to any kind of artefact prepared in software development. There is no need for dynamic execution of the artefact. The steps of an inspection process are typically 1) overview of the artefact to be inspected,