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Fully Employing Software Inspections DataSoftware inspections provide a proven approach to quality assurance for software products of all kinds, including requirements, design, code, test plans, among others. Common to all inspections is the aim of finding and fixing defects as early as possible, and thereby providing cost savings by minimizing the amount of rework necessary later in the lifecycle. Measurement data, such as the number and type of found defects and the effort spent by the inspection team, provide not only direct feedback about the software product to the project team but are also valuable for process improvement activities. In this paper, we discuss NASA's use of software inspections and the rich set of data that has resulted. In particular, we present results from analysis of inspection data that illustrate the benefits of fully utilizing that data for process improvement at several levels. Examining such data across multiple inspections or projects allows team members to monitor and trigger cross project improvements. Such improvements may focus on the software development processes of the whole organization as well as improvements to the applied inspection process itself.
Document ID
20090038685
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Shull, Forrest
(Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Feldmann, Raimund L.
(Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Seaman, Carolyn
(Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Regardie, Myrna
(Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Godfrey, Sally
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2009
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG05GE77G
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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