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This chapter discusses software inspections, which play an important role in building quality into a product. The well-known Fagan inspection process that was developed at IBM in the 1970s is discussed, as well as lighter review and walkthrough methodologies.
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O’Regan, G. (2022). Software Inspections. In: Concise Guide to Software Engineering. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07816-3_7
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