Chapter 12. Design Review, Test and Reliability Growth
12.1. Review Techniques
Design review is the process of comparing the design, at points during design and development, with the requirements of earlier stages. Examples are a review of:
• the functional specification against the requirements specification;
• circuit or mechanical assembly performance against the functional specification;
• predicted reliability/availability against targets in the requirements specification;
• some software source code against the software specification.
Two common misconceptions about design review are:
• that they are schedule progress meetings;
• that they are to appraise the designer.
They are, in fact, to verify the design, as it exists at a particular time against ...
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