10.5 Inspections and Reviews
One of the most cost-effective techniques for detecting errors is to have the code or the intermediate documents reviewed by a team of software developers. Here, we will use the term review as a generic term to specify any process involving human testers reading and understanding a document and then analyzing it with the purpose of detecting errors, and reserve the term inspection for a particular variation that will also be described. These inspections are sometimes referred to as Fagan inspections in the literature.
Note that reviews for the purposes of finding errors are discussed here. There are many other techniques involving teams of people analyzing source code or other documents, including what is sometimes ...
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