A
New Model
for Software Inspection at the Requirements Analysis and Design Phases of
Software Development
Navid Taba and Siew Ow
Department of
Software Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Abstract: Software inspection models have been remarkable development
in over the past four decades, particularly in the field of automatic
inspection of software codes and electronic sessions. A small number of
improvements have been made in the field of system analysis and design. The
amount of using formal inspection model which is based on single check lists
and physical or electronic sessions shows the decrease in interest in it. As inspection, in
system analysis phase, is a man-cantered issue, inspectors support using
electronic tools will lead to higher efficiency of the inspection process. This
paper proposes a comprehensive web-based tool aimed to accelerating the
inspection process in the early phases of software development. In order to
evaluate the efficiency of the proposed tool, two case studies were conducted
to inspect the artifacts from six software projects of two software companies. Comparing
the statistics related to the defects detected using this tool with those
detected using the formal method shows the efficiency of the used tool.
Keywords: Software inspection, software test,
software engineering improvement, web-based solution, software inspection tool,
inspection metrics.
Received September 2, 2013; accepted September 29, 2014; Published online December 23, 2015