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It is generally accepted that every programmer checks his or her code before submitting it to testing. This process has been formalised by means of ‘reviews’, ‘walkthroughs’ and ‘inspections’. Inspections were used in industry by the author, following Fagan, but were not well-metricated: others have shown that the quantifiable benefits of inspections may be considerable. A final-year project at Staffordshire University has produced results for software inspection compared both to computer-based testing alone and to computer-based testing following inspection in which metrics were collected throughout the process, allowing comparisons of effectiveness and efficiency.
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Brunskill, D.A., Samuel, A. (1995). Experience in Software Inspection Techniques. In: Lee, M., Barta, BZ., Juliff, P. (eds) Software Quality and Productivity. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34848-3_38
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