Formal Review Techniques

Also known as Software Inspection Techniques or Reading Techniques...

• Ad-hoc
• Checklist
• Reading By Stepwise Abstraction - Examine key sub-programs and work your way up.
• Active Design Reviews - Questionnaires are used to focus the attention of the reviewers.
• DefectBasedReading
• PerspectiveBasedReading

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Apparently experiments conducted at the University of Maryland (VictorBasili) showed that checklist methods are no more effective than ad-hoc in finding defects.