Task-directed software inspection

Authors:
Diane Kelly;Terry Shepard
Affiliations:
Royal Military College of Canada, Electrical and Computer Engineering, P.O. Box 17000, Station Forces, Kingston, Ont., Canada K7K 7B4;Royal Military College of Canada, Electrical and Computer Engineering, P.O. Box 17000, Station Forces, Kingston, Ont., Canada K7K 7B4
Venue:
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Applications of statistics in software engineering
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Software inspection is recognized as an effective verification technique. Despite this fact, the use of inspection is surprisingly low. This paper describes a new inspection technique, called task-directed inspection (TDI), and a light-weight process, that were used to introduce inspection in a particular industrial environment. This environment had no history of inspections, was resistant to the idea of inspection, but had a situation where confidence in a safety-related legacy suite of software had to be increased. The characteristics of TDI are explored. They give rise to a variety of approaches that may encourage more widespread use of inspections. This paper examines the industrial exercise as a case study, with the intent that it be useful in other situations that share characteristics with the situation described.