Software Inspection Tools

The purpose of software inspection tools is to support distributed inspection meetings and preparation phases.

XATI is a web-based inspection tool. It fetches related data with Xfi technology. The XATI tool utilizes Netscape 6 series browser (based on the work of Mozilla.org) as a generic application environment.

Look at the screenshot.

Selected Papers

Preliminary Evaluation of Software Inspection Tools

Hedberg, H. & Lappalainen, J.
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2005), Melbourne, Australia, September 19-20, 2005.




Introducing the Next Generation of Software Inspection Tools

Hedberg, H.
In Proceedings of 5th International Conference of Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES), Kansai Science City, Japan, April 2004.




Virtual Software Inspections for Distributed Software Engineering Projects

Hedberg, H., Harjumaa, L.
In Proceedings of International Workshop on Global Software Development (Co-located with ICSE 2002), Orlando, Florida.

Contact Information

Inspection tool research area is led by Henrik Hedberg (firstname.lastname@oulu.fi).