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team members and roles, and summarizes the number of and the severity
of defects found. The report also states whether a reinspection is required.
Inspection teams are small groups of coworkers, usually of three to six peo-
ple, with the author included. Usually all members of the inspection team
are working on related efforts such as design, coding, testing, support, or
training, so they can more easily understand the product and find errors.
Their own work is usually affected by the artifact that they are inspecting,
which means that the inspectors are motivated participants. Managers gen-
erally do not ...