Peer Reviews & Inspections
Live, Online Course
From the Software Excellence Academy Powered by The Westfall Team
* Our All-Access Membership includes this course
Target Audience
Software peer review and inspection participants and moderators, software developers, testers, software quality engineers, project managers, functional managers, and other stakeholders, who will be involved in planning, moderating and participating in software peer reviews and inspections.
Method of Instruction
This course is taught through lecture and interactive discussion. Actual examples from the software industry are utilized to make the information relevant. Throughout this course, learned skills are practiced using team exercises. The emphasis of this course is on techniques that allow the attendees to transition the skills learned in this course to their own work environments. For on-site courses, peer reviews can be practices during the exercises utilizing actual work products from the attendee’s organization.
Course Workbook
This course has a downloadable course workbook designed to provide reference materials that can be utilized long after completing the course. This workbook includes:
- Copies of all presentation materials with annotated notes
- A bibliography of reference materials
- An index and glossary of peer review and inspection terminology used in the course
Course Description
This Peer Review & Inspection course is course designed to provide a comprehensive knowledge base and practical skills for anyone interested in implementing or improving software peer review and formal inspection techniques and practices in their organization. This course includes training on desk checking, walk-through and formal inspection processes.
This course starts with an overview of peer review basics. You will learn the:
- The importance of peer reviews
- What work products should be peer reviewed
- How to utilize risk-based techniques for determining the type of peer review to hold
- How to select the right people to participate in a peer review
You will learn various techniques to improve your desk checking skill in order to identify more significant defect.
The course also includes an overview of the steps in the walk-through processes.
You will learn and practice the formal inspection process, including how to:
- Moderate an inspection
- Plan the inspection
- Hold a kick-off meeting
- Prepare for the inspection
- Conducting the inspection meeting
- Perform corrective action and follow-up
This course also includes an overview of metrics for tracking the inspection process and analyzing its effectiveness.
Enrolling
This is a live, online course. The registration cost for this course is $495 per student.
If your organization has 3 or more students to register, you can receive a $50 discount off each registration. Larger discounts are also available for 10 or more students from the same organization.
Call 972-867-1172 or email [email protected] for an organizational discount code.
For more information about bringing any of our courses onsite to you organization:
Send an email to: [email protected]
Or call: 972-867-1172
