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A ‘walkthrough’ is an informal nature meeting involving
assessment of certain issues and problems while an
inspection is a meeting of a higher formalized degree
involving 3-8 people among which one is a moderator, who
leads the inspection, with a reader and a recorder who
takes notes of the inspection meeting. Usually
inspection is performed for the evaluation of a document
e.g. a software requirement specification or a test
plan. The purpose is to identify problems and see what
is missing in the document or report, The inspection is
not conducted to fix any issues that might be the part
of the document, rather it is conducted just to identify
them. Sufficient preparation is required to attend an
inspection session and the member should prepare
themselves for the meeting by reading the document prior
to the inspection. This preparation is very useful and
provides as a base for the inspection session.
The outcome of the inspection meeting should be a report listing all the issues experienced or identified during the review of the report or document. Complete and thorough preparation for attending an inspection session can be difficult and painful task, but it is an important factor in increasing the cost benefit ratio as well as quality of the overall process. The people who are better skilled for inspection are of much importance in the organizations. Their skill might be less visible but they are very precious to any software development firm, as the bug prevention task is much more cost efficient than bug detection. |
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