Inspection is a fundamental means of achieving software usability. Past research showed that the current usability inspection techniques were rather ine ective. We developed perspective-based usability inspection, which divides the large variety of usability issues along di erent perspectives and focuses each inspection session on one perspective. We conducted a controlled experiment to study i...

The paper studies the relationship between organisational memory, team work and organisational learning. A development project carried out by a Finnish labour protection ofice during 1988-1992 is taken as a case study. During the development project the labour protection inspectors radically changed their work orientation and practices. At the same time as creating a new way of working the insp...

At present, the image quality of LCD panels has been determined subjectively by human visual inspection. In fact, the inspectors need to memorize a large number of instructions. The inspection tasks include a series of complicated procedures that increase the workload of the inspectors. This research focuses on the improvement of LCD inspection. The knowledge extracting of inspection data was t...

School inspections are a common feature of education systems across the world. These involve trained professionals visiting schools and reaching judgements about quality they provide. Yet there is currently little academic research investigating consistency school inspections, including how vary inspectors with different characteristics. We present new empirical evidence on this matter, drawing...

Ensuring inspection performance is not a trivial design problem, because inspection is a complex and difficult task that tends to be error-prone, whether performed by human or by automated machines. Due to economical or technological reasons, human inspectors are responsible for inspection functions in many cases. Humans, however, are rarely perfect. A system of manual inspection was found to b...

In object oriented programming languages, classes are used to incorporate state (fields) and behavior (methods) that modifies the state. Typically, only a subset of a classes’ methods actually modifies the state. Methods that don’t modify the state are called side– effect free or pure methods. We propose to use purity information to classify methods as inspectors (methods that reveal informatio...

It is indubitable that usability inspection of complex hypermedia is still an "art", in the sense that a great deal is left to the skills, experience, and ability of the inspectors. Training inspectors is difficult and often quite expensive. The SUE inspection technique has been proposed to help usability inspectors share and transfer their evaluation know-how, to simplify the hypermedia inspec...

We analysed the reports of government-appointed inspectors from 192 zoos between 2005-2008 to provide the first review of how animal welfare was assessed in British zoos since the enactment of the Zoo Licensing Act 1981. We examined the effects of whether or not a veterinarian was included in the inspection team, type of inspection, licence status of the zoo and membership of a zoo association ...