Software reviews are a "filter" for the software engineering process. That is, reviews are applied at various points during software development and serve to uncover errors and defects that can then be removed.
Software reviews "purify" the software engineering activities that we have called analyssis , design, and coding. Freedman and Weinberg discuss the need for reviews this way:
Technical work needs reviewing for the same reason that pencils need erasers: To err is human. The second reason we need technical reviews is that although people are good at catching some of their own errors , large classes of errors escape the originator more easily than they escape anyone else. The review process is, therefore, the answer to the prayer of Robert Burns:
O wad some power the giftie give us to see ourselves as other see us
A review—any review—is a way of using the diversity of a group of people to:
1. Point out needed improvements in the product of a single person or team;
2. Confirm those parts of a product in which improvement is either not desired or not needed;
3. Achieve technical work of more uniform, or at least more predictable, quality than can be achieved without reviews, in order to make technical work more manageable.
Many different types of reviews can be conducted as part of software engineering. Each has its place. An informal meeting around the coffee machine is a forma review, if technical problems are discussed. A formal presentation of software design to an audience of customers, management, and technical staff is also a form of review.
A formal technical review is the most effective filter from a quality standpoint. Conducted by software engineers (and others) for software engineers, the FTR is an effective means for improving software quality.
Cost Impact of Software Defects
The IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronics Terms (IEEE Standard 100-1992) defines a defect as "a product anomaly." The definition for fault in the hardware context can be found in IEEE Standard 610.12-1990:
(a) A defect in a hardware device or component; for example, a short circuit or broken wire, (b) An incorrect step, process, or data definition in a computer program. Note: This definition is used primarily by the fault tolerance discipline. In common usage, the terms "error" and bug are used to express this meaning. See also: data-sensitive fault; program-sensitive fault; equivalent faults; fault masking; intermittent fault.
Within the context of the process, the terms defect and fault are synonymous. Both imply a quality problem that is discovered after the software has been released to end-users (or to another activity in the software process).
The primary objective of formal technical reviews is to find errors during the process so that they do not become defects after release of the software. The obvious benefit of formal technical reviews is the early discovery of errors so that they do not propagate to the next step in the software proess.
SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE AND CONTROL
SOFTWARE QUALITY AND COST ASPECT
STABLE PROCESS OF SOFTWARE TESTING
STABLE PROCESS OF SOFTWARE TESTING PART TWO
DEFECTS IN SOFTWARE TESTING
REDUCTION OF DEFECTS IN SOFTWARE TESTING
SOFTWARE TESTING AND EFFECTING FACTORS
SCOPE OF SOFTWARE TESTING
TESTING LIFE CYCLE PART ONE
TESTING LIFE CYCLE PART TWO
TESTING LIFE CYCLE PART THREE
SOFTWARE TESTING AND CONSTRAINTS WITH IN IT
TESTING CONSTRAINTS PART TWO
LIFE CYCLE TESTING
TEST METRICS
Independent Software Testing
Test Process
Testing verification and validation
Functional and structural testing
Static and dynamic testing
V model testing
Eleven steps of V model testing
Structural testing
Execution testing technique
Recovery Testing technique
Operation testing technique
Compliance software testing technique
Security testing technique
Here i am adding the further topics list on software testing subject and the topics may be scattered and you can find under different groups.
MAJOR SYSTEM FAILURES IN THE HISTORY
WHAT IS A SOFTWARE BUG ?
ROLE OF A TESTER
SOFTWARE TESTING INTRODUCTION PART ONE
TESTING INTRODUCTION PART TWO
TESTING INTRODUCTION PART THREE
TESTING INTRODUCTIONS PART FOUR
SOFTWARE TESTING FUNDAMENTALS
SOFTWARE TESTING FUNDAMENTALS PART TWO
SOFTWARE TESTING FUNDAMENTALS PART THREE
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