IfSQ
Inspection is nearly twice as fast
Research Finding:
NASA's Software Engineering Laboratory found that code inspection detected about 3.3 defects per hour of effort, compared to 1.8 errors per hour of testing effort.
Source:
Evaluating Software Engineering Technologies
- David N. Card, F.E. McGarry, and G.T. Page
- Recorded 1987 in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-13, no. 7, July
- Pages 845-51