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Evidence of the low software inspection adoption
Evidence of the low software inspection adoption
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Aug, 2012
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| Inspection repeatedly has been demonstrated to yield up to a 10- to-1 return on investment...depressingly few practitioners know about the 30-year-old tech- nique of software inspection. | Wiegers, K. (2006). The more things change. Better Software, 8(1), 30-34. IEEE. | Ebert, C., Stewart, R., & Priven, L. (2008). How to Avoid Software Inspection Failure and Achieve Ongoing Benefits. CrossTalk: The Journal for Defense Software Engineering, 23-27. |
| ...inspections never succeeded as well as expected, primarily because these organizations did not learn how to make inspections both effective and low cost. | Radice, Ron. High Quality Low Cost Software Inspections. Andover, MA:Paradoxicon Publishing, 200 | Ebert, C., Stewart, R., & Priven, L. (2008). How to Avoid Software Inspection Failure and Achieve Ongoing Benefits. CrossTalk: The Journal for Defense Software Engineering, 23-27. |
| I continue to be amazed at the number of software development organizations that do not use this powerful method [inspections] to improve quality and productivity. | Weller, Ed. “Calculating the Economics of Inspections." StickyMinds Jan. 2002 | Ebert, C., Stewart, R., & Priven, L. (2008). How to Avoid Software Inspection Failure and Achieve Ongoing Benefits. CrossTalk: The Journal for Defense Software Engineering, 23-27. |
| ...the inspection process has not gained widespread usage according to the Software Engineering Institute. | D. O'Neill, National software quality experiment: results 1992–1996, Proceedings of QualityWeek Europe Conference, Brussels, 1997, pp. 1–25. | Mishra, D., & Mishra, A. (2009). Simplified software inspection process in compliance with international standards. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 31(4), 763-771. Elsevier B.V. doi: 10.1016/j.csi.2008.09.018. |
| many software companies perform reviews they do it unsystematically and little knowledge about software inspection is used. | Ciolkowski, M., Laitenberger, O., Biffl, S., “Software Reviews: The State of the Practice", IEEE Software 20 (6): 46-51, 2003. | Mishra, D., & Mishra, A. (2009). Simplified software inspection process in compliance with international standards. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 31(4), 763-771. Elsevier B.V. doi: 10.1016/j.csi.2008.09.018. |
| ...it is also well known that there is a huge gap between this knowledge and the real state of practice. | Kollanus, S. (2009). Experiences from using ICMM in inspection process assessment. Software Quality Journal, 17(2), 177-187. doi: 10.1007/s11219-008-9067-2. | |
| Ciolkowski et al. (2003) found that about 40% of the respondents to their survey regularly review requirements, which is the most typical document type to review. | Ciolkowski, M., Laitenberger, O., & Biffl, S. (2003). Software reviews, the state of the practice. IEEE Software, 20(6), 46–51. | Kollanus, S. (2009). Experiences from using ICMM in inspection process assessment. Software Quality Journal, 17(2), 177-187. doi: 10.1007/s11219-008-9067-2. |
| Johnson (1998) reported that 80% of the respondents in his small survey used inspection irregularly or not at all. | Johnson, P. (1998). Reengineering inspection. Communications of the ACM, 41(2), 49–52. | Kollanus, S. (2009). Experiences from using ICMM in inspection process assessment. Software Quality Journal, 17(2), 177-187. doi: 10.1007/s11219-008-9067-2. |
| Despite the effort for improving inspections, the relevant problem seems to be the wide adoption of inspections spite the overwhelming evidences of their benefits. | C. Denger, and F. Shull. A Practical Approach for Quality- Driven Inspections. In Software, IEEE, vol. 24, no. 2, 2007. | Ferreira, A. L., Machado, R. J., Costa, L., & Paulk, M. C. (2010). An Apporach to Improving Software Inspections Performance. Conference On Software Maintenance. |
| Despite the effort for improving inspections, the relevant problem seems to be the wide adoption of inspections spite the overwhelming evidences of their benefits. | J. Remillard. Source code review systems. In Software, IEEE, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 74 - 77, Jan 1, 2005. | Ferreira, A. L., Machado, R. J., Costa, L., & Paulk, M. C. (2010). An Apporach to Improving Software Inspections Performance. Conference On Software Maintenance. |
| According to a survey, about 70 percent of the respondents from software companies produce requirements and design documents [7]. Of those who produce requirements and design documents, fewer than half perform document reviews. | Komssi, M., Kauppinen, M., Pyhajarvi, M., Talvio, J., & Mannisto, T. (2010). Persuading Software Development Teams to Document Inspections: Success Factors and Challenges in Practice. 2010 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 283-288. Ieee. doi: 10.1109/RE.2010.40. | |
| inspections have problems | Denger, C., & Shull, F. (2007). A Practical Approach for Quality-Driven Inspections. IEEE Software, 24(2), 79-86. doi:10.1109/MS.2007.31 | |
| ...they cut corners on the process at every opportunity. | Denger, C., & Shull, F. (2007). A Practical Approach for Quality-Driven Inspections. IEEE Software, 24(2), 79-86. doi:10.1109/MS.2007.31 | |
| ...results of a survey [3] show that although many software companies perform reviews they do it unsystematically and little knowledge about software inspections is used. | Ciolkowski, M., Laitenberger, O., Biffl, S., “Software Reviews: The State of the Practice", IEEE Software 20 (6): 46-51, 2003. | Kalinowski, M., & Travassos, G. H. (2007). ISPIS: From Conception towards Industry Readiness. XXVI International Conference of the Chilean Society of Computer Science (SCCC'07), 132-141. Ieee. doi:10.1109/SCCC.2007.9 |
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