Improving software inspections with group process support

Abstract

The 'group process' governing any group interaction also influences a group's inspection performance.

A Framework for Supporting the Software Architecture Evaluation Process in Global Software Development

“…Groupware-supported inspection processes have been successfully evaluated as a promising way to minimise meeting costs, maximise asynchronous work and conserve a number of precious organisational resources [18,23]. Moreover, it has also been shown that the software inspection process can be improved with group process support [42]. The RE community has also been trying to devise and evaluate processes to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of its activities and to address the issues caused by an increasing trend of GSD.…”

Improving the Usability Evaluation Technique, Heuristic Evaluation, Through the Use of Collaborative Software

“…Collaborative software can also help with information overload by creating a better form of structured, group memory (Nunamaker Jr. et al, 1991). Recently, these benefits have been shown in software inspection (a task that shares many similarities with usability evaluation) with inspection groups using used collaborative software (Rogers & Dean, 2003;Tyran & George, 2002). Specifically, HE participants must be able to see the bugs that other participants are reporting, to build on these contributions, to receive guidance, to develop new ideas of bugs that may exist based on these, and to avoid duplicate work.…”

Using Software Inspection as a Catalyst for SPI in a Small Company

“…Software inspections are gaining increased acceptance in the software engineering industry. Even though industry experience shows that inspections reduce cycle time, lower costs, increases process visibility, improves programmers' capability and, of course, improve quality by preventing defects [9,6,22], the inspection process has not gained widespread usage according to the Software Engineering Institute [23]. To promote the utilization of inspections, we suggest inspection improvement patterns for easy installation and usage of the process.…”