5 Conclusion

Software inspection is a technical best practice and should be adopted by organizations to improve the quality and productivity of a software development process. The inspection also reduces number of reworks and associated costs. Additionally, it implicitly promotes team morale and a quality oriented culture in the organization. However, there are costs of the inspection. It is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process. To achieve an expert level of inspection practices, the organization needs to provide adequate training, acquire experienced developers, and allocate resources. Ineffective inspections will have significant impacts on individuals and team morale. No all organizations have adopted a code inspection into their software development process. This is because organizations do not have enough skills and experiences in an inspection process, and may be not able to justify the inspection?s cost effectiveness against business. However, I believe that an organization or a project can adopt an inspection process if it wants to. It does not need to go with a big bang approach. An organization should start with a low level inspection (walk through), and gradually moves toward a formal inspection process.

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