A Knowledge Management Framework to Support Software Inspection Planning

Software inspection requires customization to each development context and guidelines for planning for optimal results. In this work we present a role-oriented knowledge management framework for key decisions in software inspection planning and focus on how to use available knowledge from literature, which may vary considerably in different contexts, with local empirical data. We identify three decision levels, which differ by knowledge requirements and the level of uncertainty for decision inputs: the quality management level, the project planning level,and the inspection level. On each inspection planning level we provide scenarios with key decisions that outline the decision-making process and show how available inspection knowledge based on measurement in a particular context can be used for decision support. The conceptual framework is a first step to make inspection planning more explicit and procedural in order to be able to further improve this process.

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