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Software Inspections in Practice: Six Case Studies

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2006)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 4034))

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Software inspections have been acknowledged as an important method in software engineering, but they are not well applied in practice. This paper discusses the current practices and the related problems based on six case studies in industrial settings. The analysis of inspection practices was organized according to ICMM, which is a model for systematically assessing and improving software inspection process maturity. The sample case organizations used inspections relatively regularly. The involved units are compared and the revealed practices, their characteristics, inspection problems and implications of the study discussed. The main problem areas were non-existent inspection training, limited formality of inspections and immaturity of inspection metrics.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, Agora, FI-40014, Finland

    Sami Kollanus & Jussi Koskinen

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Jürgen Münch

  2. VTT Electronics, Kaitovayla 1, 90570, Oulu, Finland

    Matias Vierimaa

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Kollanus, S., Koskinen, J. (2006). Software Inspections in Practice: Six Case Studies. In: Münch, J., Vierimaa, M. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4034. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11767718_31

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