What is the process involved in inspection and ...
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Topic: What is the process involved in inspection and ...
Posted By: tanushree
Subject: What is the process involved in inspection and ...
Date Posted: 17Oct2007 at 3:33am
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The process is performed by a group of people (three or four), only one
of whom is the author of the program. Hence the program is essentially
being tested by people other than the author, which is in consonance
with the testing principle stating that an individual is usually
ineffective in testing his or her own program. Inspection and
walkthroughs are far more effective compare to desk checking (the
process of a programmer reading his/her own program before testing it)
because people other than the program’s author are involved in the
process. These processes also appear to result in lower debugging
(error correction) costs, since, when they find an error, the precise
nature of the error is usually located. Also, they expose a batch or
errors, thus allowing the errors to be corrected later enmasse.
Computer based testing, on the other hand, normally exposes only a
symptom of the error and errors are usually detected and corrected one
by one.
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