N-Fold inspection: a requirements analysis technique

Authors:
Johnny Martin;W. T. Tsai
Affiliations:
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis;Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1990

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Abstract

N-fold inspection uses traditional inspections of the user requirements document (URD) but replicates the inspection activities using N independent teams. A pilot study was conducted to explore the usefulness of N-fold inspection during requirements analysis. A comparison of N-fold inspection with other development techniques reveals that N-fold inspection is a cost-effective method for finding faults in the URD and may be a valid technique in the development of mission-critical software systems.