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...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research is responsible for evaluating drug safety and efficacy, including oversight of clinical trials and principal investigators. The FDA Clinical Investigator Inspection List (CIIL) contains online, detailed, relevant information of all FDA inspections. We reviewed FDA inspections of clinical investigators to ascerta...

In this paper we will analyse the software inspections related published data of different successful companies. We will compare the impact of software inspections on software quality with other software quality assurance techniques like software tests etc. Our analysis will show that software inspections play the most important role in software quality assurance. We will also briefly discuss w...

For more than twenty-five years software inspections have been considered an effective and efficient method for software quality improvement [3,4,9]. The goal of inspections is to detect defect before the testing stage begins. According to the data published in the literature, software design inspections save on average 44% of the defect detection costs, and code inspections save on average 39%...

Software inspections are commonly used throughout the software industry, but there are still open questions about the relationship between inspection processes and inspection effectiveness. For example, which techniques work best in various environments? Are requirements specifications inspections and code inspections different in terms of effectiveness? What is the effectiveness in inspections...

• Targeted inspections for the most vulnerable manholes: We created periodic inspections at regularly scheduled intervals for the most vulnerable k manholes. Specifically, every 50 days, we inspected the top 10% of vulnerable manholes for that day, all at once. While this targeting policy is effective in terms of reducing the overall hazard rate, it is plausible that some manholes may be inspec...

During the last two decades a universal agreement has been established on the fact that software inspections play a fundamental role in improving software quality. The number of software organizations that have incorporated formal reviews in their development process is constantly increasing and the belief that efficient inspections can not only detect defects but also reduce cycle time and low...

Code inspections continue to gain significance as a software verification scheme since Fagan introduced the concept. Software engineering researchers examining the value of code inspections have exclusively focused on defect removal benefits of inspections. In this paper we develop and test empirical models of both quality improvement and project management benefits realized because of effort s...