Inspection

Inspection in softare Testing refers to peer review of any work product by trained individuals who search for defects using a well defined process. lets us see this Inspection in detail...

Goal of Inspection: it is to satisfy all of its inspectors to reach consensus on that work product and approve it to be used in the project. a product is selected for review and a team will gather for reviewing that particular products, a moderator is choosen to moderate the meeting, and the participant first read and prepare with the work products to raise the defects that come in the work flow as it is the main goal to identify the defects this meeting is conducted.

The process will be in this manner:

• Planning: The inspection is planned by the moderator.
• Overview meeting: The author describes the background of the work product.
• Preparation: Each inspector examines the work product to identify possible defects.
• Inspection meeting: During this meeting the reader reads through the work product, part by part and the inspectors point out the defects for every part.
• Rework: The author makes changes to the work product according to the action plans from the inspection meeting.
• Follow-up: The changes by the author are checked to make sure everything is correct.

The process is ended by the moderator when it satisfies some predefined exit criteria.

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• mutation testing
• Fault injection
• static testing
• function points
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