Usability inspections are a cost-effective alternative to conventional usability testing for evaluating and improving the usability of software and Web-based systems. The collaborative usability inspection technique described here is a highly structured, scenario-driven inspection process optimized for rapidly identifying, classifying, and prioritizing usability defects. The process has been re...

Maps are available for inspection at City Hall, Department of Public Works, 4125 West Clarendon Drive, Cockrell Hill, TX 75211. City of Dallas Maps are available for inspection at the Department of Public Works, 320 East Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75203. City of Garland Maps are available for inspection at City Hall, 800 Main Street, Garland, TX 75040. City of Grand Prairie Maps are availa...

A number of computer tools have been introduced to overcome the difficulties in traditional software inspection. Actual inspection tools are rarely used, however, as the current tool implementations have some critical inadequacies. This paper briefly summarizes the evolution of computer-supported software inspection and outlines the concept of virtual software inspection, which introduces two i...

Optimal inspection and maintenance of complex systems in modern industry is important for safety and economic reasons. With appropriate statistical modelling, the utilisation of inspection resources and quality of inferences can be greatly improved. Modelling and inspection of a full-scale industrial furnace subject to corrosion is considered. A suitable Bayesian spatio-temporal dynamic linear ...

As the use of software grows in today’s society, software quality is becoming an increasingly important issue, and the need for activities to control and improve it is increasing dramatically. Software inspection has been extensively used for over thirty years to ensure the quality of software, by finding and repairing defects in software products. However, the yet narrow scope of research has ...

We report our experience at the University of Florida in which residents and fellows served as the inspection team for a College of American Pathologists (CAP) self-inspection. We aimed to determine whether the CAP self-inspection could serve as a learning opportunity for pathology residents and fellows. To prepare for the inspection, we provided a series of 4 lunchtime seminars covering numero...

The inspection of early life-cycle artfacts such as requirements documents promises great benejts. However, research demonstrates that the inspection process is complex and expensive and that tool support would be highly desirable. Existing inspection tools focus largely on the inspection of source code. We have therefore devised groupware support for inspecting requirements. Based on our exper...