24.3 Reviews and inspections
Reviews and inspections are quality assurance activities that check the quality of project deliverables. This involves checking the software, its documentation, and records of the process to discover errors and omissions as well as standards violations. As I explained in Chapter 8, reviews and inspections are used alongside program testing as part of the general process of software verification and validation.
During a review, several people examine the software and its associated documentation, looking for potential problems and nonconformance with standards. The review team makes informed judgments about the level of quality of the software or project documents. Project managers may then use these assessments to ...
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