1 Introduction Inspections, a proven quality improvement approach [3, 7], are a process where a team of skilled individuals review a software artifact (e.g., requirements specification document) to identify faults. Traditional fault-based software inspections (like Fault Checklist inspection) focus inspectors' attention on different type of faults (e.g., incorrect or incomplete or ambiguous req...

Inspection qualification is the term currently used to describe the process of independent assessment of a specific non-destructive test to ensure that it is capable of meeting its objectives. Such activities carried out on the Sizewell B reactor inspections were referred to as validation. In the USA, the term performance demonstration is used, though this is increasingly being reserved for the...

Inspections of pharmaceutical market participants to verify their compliance with good practice requirements are integral regulatory practices the Member States Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The framework for Good Clinical Practice (GCP) inspections is outlined in Decision No. 78 Council Commission November 3, 2016. This interview Alla A. TRAPKOVA, Deputy General Director Scientific Centre Ex...

Two important features of real-world port inspections of shipping containers for invasive species are the general absence of underlying economic considerations and the climate of severe uncertainty that surrounds the likelihood of invasive species introductions. In this article we propose and illustrate a method for determining inspection protocols that address both of these issues. We seek ins...

The Healthcare Commission, the national regulator for health care in England, uses an innovative risk detection system to target its inspections of National Health Service organisations. At the core of the system is a tool that enables: gathering of information from a huge variety of sources, and of varying types; mapping this information to the regulatory framework; and analysing this informat...

This paper identifies baseline procedures for verifying software for individual, small team, and large team development efforts for mission-critical and non-mission-critical software. It is based on defect-based inspections and basis path testing. Basis path testing provides a unified approach for performing unit, integration, and functional tests, whereas defect-based inspections are primarily...

Inspection planning is an important activity in process industries, and one of the key tools used for such planning is the risk based inspection (RBI) methodology. The RBI is commonly used in planning of inspections for static mechanical equipment, in particular piping networks. The inspections are prioritized based on risk, expressed as expected values, integrating the likelihood and consequen...

Europe plays a major role in the international semiconductor industry, but has conducted few studies of the occupational health of its workers. An exception is in the United Kingdom, where, in two small studies, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) evaluated some health effects of semiconductor work. Neither of these studies, largely restricted to Scotland, produced definitive results, and bot...