A Comparison of the Efficiencies of Code Inspections in Software Development and Maintenance.
Liguo Yu, Robert Batzinger, Srini Ramaswamy · 2006
Inspection is one of the most common sorts of review practices in software projects. However, there are some controversial reports about the efficiencies of software inspections. In this paper, we perform an empirical study to analyze the efficiencies of code inspections in both software development and software maintenance. The study is performed on 650 NASA SEL inspection records. Similar results are found for both the inspections of the original code in software development and the modified code in software maintenance: (1) the efficiency of an inspection meeting is not linearly dependent on the number of inspectors; (2) preparation time and inspection time play critical roles in determining the efficiency of an inspection meeting. 1.