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Issues in Software Inspection Practices

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Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 3547))

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The motivation for this research comes from a need to improve software inspection practices in software organizations. Even if inspections are well defined and regularly used in an organization, there may be some problems which can greatly reduce inspection effectiveness. The paper presents a list of inspection related problems which are known in the literature. It also relates some experiences from two case organizations. In addition, this paper provides an approach which helps identifying problems of this kind and directing limited improvement resources effectively.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, P.O.Box 35, (Agora), FI-40014, Finland

    Sami Kollanus

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Fraunhofer Platz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Frank Bomarius

  2. VTT Electronics, P.O. Box 1100, 90571, Oulu, Finland

    Seija Komi-Sirviö

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Kollanus, S. (2005). Issues in Software Inspection Practices. In: Bomarius, F., Komi-Sirviö, S. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3547. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11497455_34

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