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Adoption of Inspection
Several studies have proved that inspection is a remarkably efficient
way to improve quality of software development as well as of software
artefacts. In addition, the inspection is a well-known and very
respected practice, accordingly there are hardly any software
managers daring to confess publicly that they reject inspections in
their organisations. In a way most software developers accept
inspections and regard them as worth of doing.
At the same time, inspections do not feel very commons. Especially
new and small companies seldomly practise inspections. Moreover,
inspection process is very often corrupted, thus even important
artefacts can be not inspected as well as inspections and project
reviews can be mixed. Even in companies with regular inspections,
these inspections can be window-dressings - a clean up processes for
conscience not quality improvement processes.
Nonetheless, we have also seen companies with a quality process in a
natural part of software development. These companies have performed
inspections regularly in a fairly efficient way. Adoptions of
inspections were a long run process and quality had had all full time
support from management.By studying these companies it is possible to
find valuable information for improving other companies' inspections.
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