Written with every software engineer's question in mind-How much do inspections pay off?-this book demonstrates how to get the most value while controlling costs for investment and inspections. Covered are the economics and ROI of inspections as well as defect prevention and controlling the cost of quality. Written for managers interested in successfully implementing inspection programs and using the data, this book can also be used by engineers and technical writers who want to learn how to maximize software quality and minimize costs as well as agents of change interested in introducing a method that has significant quality and productivity potential. Also described are how to develop and use checklists, how to apply inspections to other life cycle activities and work products, how to read documents for successful inspections, and how to maximize quality, cost, and cycle time objectives for an organization.
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Ronald A. Radice is a principal partner in Software Technology and Transition, a company that provides training, consulting services, diagnostic services, and software engineering methods and tools. He is a past director of the software process program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously the director of software resources at Groupe Bull, where he was responsible for software engineering processes, metrics, assessment, and training programs. He is the author of Software Engineering: An Industrial Approach and ISO 9001: Interpreted for Software Organizations. He has also taught graduate-level software engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He lives in Andover, Massachusetts.
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Ron Radice was the team lead with Michael Fagan as the manager back in the 1970's when software inspections were first studied and published. He is also a senior lead assessor for the SEI for CMMI level 5 assessments in Bangalore, India. He has collected the best practices for the last 30 years and has presented them in a very clear, concise discourse. He has a whole chapter on where inspections are likely to go in the near future. Some companies are now routinely achieving 100% or near 100% defect discovery in their software inspections. The ROI for highly effective inspections is between 4 and 16, see my Crosstalk articles:
[...] When is it Cost Effective to do Formal Software Inspections? This explores the cost effectiveness boundaries of the model. Answer- almost always!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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So what's the problem? Why do we Inspections? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
work product being inspected, work product inspected, defect removal activities, injected defects, defect removal activity, inspection meeting, function test plan, work product type, early defect removal, defect removal costs, surround code, approved change requests, software inspections, inspection effectiveness, data from inspections, preparation rate, software work products, unit test plan, defect discovery, inspected material, other work products, unit test cases, defect leakage, software community, defect injection Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Project Lead, Open Issues, Analysis Meeting, Inspection Coordinator, Prevention Meeting, Inspection Scheduling, Change Requests, End Quote, Mike Fagan, Function Points, Master Schedule, Inspections Future, Carole Jones, Possible Problems, Space Shuttle, N-fold Inspection, Responsible Individual, Visual Basic, Analysis Design Code, Capers Jones, Defect Depletion, Duck Characteristics of Inspections, Effectiveness Figure, Groupe Bull, Labor Hour New!
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So what's the problem? Why do we Inspections? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
work product being inspected, work product inspected, defect removal activities, injected defects, defect removal activity, inspection meeting, function test plan, work product type, early defect removal, defect removal costs, surround code, approved change requests, software inspections, inspection effectiveness, data from inspections, preparation rate, software work products, unit test plan, defect discovery, inspected material, other work products, unit test cases, defect leakage, software community, defect injection Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Project Lead, Open Issues, Analysis Meeting, Inspection Coordinator, Prevention Meeting, Inspection Scheduling, Change Requests, End Quote, Mike Fagan, Function Points, Master Schedule, Inspections Future, Carole Jones, Possible Problems, Space Shuttle, N-fold Inspection, Responsible Individual, Visual Basic, Analysis Design Code, Capers Jones, Defect Depletion, Duck Characteristics of Inspections, Effectiveness Figure, Groupe Bull, Labor Hour New!
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- The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition by Gerald M. Weinberg on page 22, page 185, and Back Matter
- Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming on page 222, and Back Matter
- Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering: March 25-29, 1996 Berlin, Germany (International Conference on Software ... Conference on Software Engineering) by IEEE in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Software Engineering by Gregory W. Jones in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Usability Inspection Methods by Jakob Nielsen on page 179, and Back Matter
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- Software Engineering, The Supporting Processes (Practitioners) (Volume 2) by Richard H. Thayer on page 109
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