January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 17m
English
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Chapter 5 Reviews
After studying this chapter, you will be able to:
- – understand the value of different types of reviews;
- – understand the personal review;
- – understand the desk-check type of peer review;
- – understand the reviews described in the ISO/IEC 20246 standard, the CMMI®, and the IEEE 1028 standard;
- – understand the walk-through and inspection review;
- – understand the project launch review and project lessons learned review;
- – understand the measures related to reviews;
- – understand the usefulness of reviews for different business models;
- – understand the requirements of the IEEE 730 standard regarding reviews.
5.1 Introduction
Humphrey (2005) [HUM 05] collected years of data from thousands of software engineers showing that they unintentionally inject 100 defects per thousand lines of code. He also indicates that commercial software typically includes from one to ten errors per thousand lines of code [HUM 02]. These errors are like hidden time bombs that will explode when certain conditions are met. We must therefore put practices in place to identify and correct these errors at each stage of the development and maintenance cycle. In a previous chapter, we introduced the concept of the cost of quality. The calculation of the cost of quality is:
The detection cost is the cost of verification or evaluation of a product or service during the various stages of the ...
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