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Essentials of Software Engineering, 5th Edition
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Essentials of Software Engineering, 5th Edition

by Frank Tsui, Orlando Karam, Barbara Bernal
January 2022
Beginner
332 pages
11h 57m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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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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