A distributed Collaborative Software Inspection tool - Design, prototype, and early trial
Janet M. Drake, Vahid Mashayekhi, John Riedl, Wei‐Tek Tsai · 30th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit · 1992
Software inspection can be an effective method for detecting faults throughout the software life cycle. Traditionally, software inspection has been done with all the participants present in a meeting room and the inspection done on paper forms and documents. This approach is expensive in terms of traveling, scheduling, human resources, premeeting preparation of material, and post-meeting recording of the inspection results. We propose a distributed collaborative software inspection, relaxing the requirement that all the participants be in the same room, providing automated support, and adding structure to the process. We have developed a prototype Collaborative Software Inspection (CSI) tool that allows geographically distributed participants to collaborate in the inspection and provides automated support for all inspection activities. In its trials, CSI has performed well and the participants have been able to use it comfortably to complete the inspection. This paper de...