Eight maxims for software inspectors
Diane F. Kelly, Terry Shepard · Software Testing Verification and Reliability · 2004
Abstract Software inspections are an intensely people‐centric activity. Even though this is routinely recognized in industry, much of the research focuses on inspection mechanics. During three years of inspection experiments, even though the main purpose of the experiments was to investigate the effectiveness of a particular technique, the inspectors involved provided broad comments on many other aspects of inspections. Their comments were collected and organized into themes. These themes are presented here as a set of maxims that cover all the topics that the inspectors felt were important as they endeavoured to do good inspections. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.