Luminary Software has developed an inspection technique that is guided by test cases. This technique - we call it Guided Inspection - is useful for inspecting the products of most phases of a standard software development life cycle. We have written about this technique in a regular column in the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming: The Fifty Foot Look at Analysis and Design Models and Validating Domain Models.

Luminary Software offers an inspection service. We will facilitate the inspection of analysis and design models or other project artifacts while mentoring your personnel. We keep your project moving forward while improving your staff's ability to perform inspections.

Studies have shown that even newly trained inspectors will find 50% of the defects in the designs or code that is inspected. As their experience grows, this percentage increases rapidly. This drastically reduces the number of defects that must be detected by testing the supposedly finished product.

The Software Engineering Institute has developed a Technology Review on inspections that can be found at http://www.sei.cmu.edu/str/descriptions/inspections.html. Guided Inspection gives you the benefits of Fagan style inspections with the added benefit of being able to precisely target high priority facets of systems.

We offer a one-day or a half-day course or a two-hour executive overview of Guided Inspections. We also offer mentoring services that provide in-depth assistance to your organization.

Contact us at info@lumsoft.com.