Chapter 8. Two Eyes Aren’t Enough
In my view, the most powerful quality practice available to the software industry today is inspection of requirements documentation. A peer review is an activity in which someone other than the author of a work product examines that product manually to find defects and improvement opportunities. An inspection is a type of formal and rigorous team peer review that can discover more subtle problems than individual reviewers might spot on their own. Removing errors in the requirements saves many times the cost of the inspection because of the rapidly escalating cost of remedying defects that are found later in the project.
Unfortunately, inspections and other peer ...
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