Inspections and testing represent core techniques to ensure reliable software. Inspections also seem to have a positive effect on predictability, total costs and delivery time. This paper presents a case study of inspections and testing, done at the Ericsson development department outside Oslo in Norway. This department develops and maintains customer-defined services around AXE phone switches,...

Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that NLP can be used to impr...

Since its inception into software engineering, software inspection has been viewed as a costeffective way of increasing software quality. Despite this, many questions remain unanswered regarding, for example, ideal team size or cost effectiveness. This paper addresses some of these questions by performing an analysis using 30 published data sets from empirical experiments of software inspection...

BACKGROUND Iran, a newly industrializing country in Middle East, has a workforce of 25 million people. Most employees are working in agriculture, manufacturing, services, construction, commerce sectors, carpet weaving and mining. This article aims to explore the improvement of occupational harmful agents in workplaces due to implement "prioritize inspections". METHODS In 2012, the system of "...

This paper tries to establish a framework for sampling inspections by attributes based on soft quality standards in order to pay more attention to some shortcomings in classical modelling concerning the acceptability of inspection lots. As a suggestion such sampling inspections are described in terms of a statistical test with fuzzy hypothesis and fuzzy data, extending the classical framework o...

BACKGROUND Hygiene inspections on passenger ships are important for the prevention of communicable diseases. The European Union (EU) countries conduct hygiene inspections on passenger ships in order to ensure that appropriate measures have been taken to eliminate potential sources of contamination which could lead to the spread of communicable diseases. This study was implemented within the fra...

Personal automobile emissions are a major source of urban air pollution. Many U.S. states control emissions through mandated vehicle inspections and repairs. But there is little empirical evidence directly linking mandated inspections, maintenance, and local air pollution levels. Using individual-level data from 1998–2012 from California’s inspection program, we estimate the contemporaneous eff...