Framework for the Development of Automated Inspection Tools

Summary In early stage of software development inspection is one of the best method for identifies defects and removing defects. Automated inspections are done with some automated inspection tools. A number of automated inspection tools have been developed to support software inspection. Meanwhile existing automated inspection tools have implemented few set of parameters and software development environment require many parameters for inspection process. In this paper, we describe some common refer tool on the basis of literature also identified parameter and sub parameter of these tools. Then we conduct an industry survey meanwhile we combined both surveys. Then we proposed a framework for the development of automated inspection tools which set of parameters are implemented by automated inspection tools.

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