Inspection technique for the validation of software development processes

Abstract

Although, there are several software development processes with different characteristics in the literature, such processes are not enough to encompass the numerous fields of software applications. The practices of development differ among the developers and, sometimes, it is necessary to improve, customize or join processes already known to guarantee one needs. However, a process can only guarantee its correctness and efficiency after being thoroughly tested and validated. In the current work, a process validation model is proposed, based on the concepts of Verification and Validation (V&V), making use of the Software Inspection Technique to validate software development processes. It is presented a case study that was carried out as a first attempt of analysing the proposed model.