Software Teamwork: Taking Ownership for Success
In Search of Excellent Requirements
Requirements Writing Workshop
Exploring User Requirements with Use Cases
Inspections and Peer Reviews
Project Management: The Team Approach
Patterns in Project Success, Patterns in Project Failure
Estimation: Size Does Matter!
Quality Assurance and Testing: Ship a Great Product!
Relationship Awareness with the SDI

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Inspections and Peer Reviews

Based on Karl Wiegers's book Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2002), this workshop shows software practitioners how to effectively apply both inspections and less formal peer reviews to software products. The inspection process and participant roles are described in detail. Participants will learn why peer reviews add value at all stages of software development, know the guidelines for conducting a successful review, and know how to select an appropriate review strategy for each of their work products. A practice inspection session will help participants learn to conduct effective reviews on their own projects.

Objectives

• Explain why peer reviews add value at all stages of software development.
• Describe the differences between formal and informal reviews.
• List the participants in an inspection and describe their roles.
• Describe the activities performed at each stage in an inspection.
• Summarize the guidelines for conducting a successful review.
• Select an appropriate review strategy for each work product.

Abstract

Effective peer reviews of all types of software work products are essential if software development organizations are to reduce their cost of producing software. Formal inspections of requirements specifications, designs, source code, and other work products are a proven means for finding errors and improving the quality of software products.

This workshop shows software practitioners how to effectively apply both formal inspections and less formal reviews to software products. The inspection process and roles are described in detail. A practice inspection session will help students learn to conduct effective reviews on their own projects.

Audience

This workshop will be useful to software engineers, managers, and others who wish to learn how to systematically search for defects in software work products of any kind. Non-software people who review requirements documents have also found the session to be easy to understand.

Format

A blend of lecture, class discussion, video, and a complete practice inspection of a real project artifact.

Outline

I. Introduction to Software Peer Reviews

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