Software Reviews

Software Reviews

Software reviews are a filter to the software engineering process.

Reviews are applied at various points during software development

and serve to uncover defects that can be removed.

A software review is a way of using a group of people to:

- point out needed improvements in the product of a single person or team

- confirm those parts of the product in which improvement is not desired

- achieve technical work of more uniform quality than can be achieved

   without reviews, in order to make technical work more manageable

There are many different types of reviews:

- informal meetings

- formal presentation of software

- walkthroughs

The obvious benefit from formal technical reviews, walkthroughs,

is the early discovery of software defects so that each defect may be

corrected prior to the next step in the software engineering process.

A defect amplification model can be used to illustrate the generation

and detection of errors during the steps in the software engineering process