Software Reviews

Aim of the software reviews is to purify the software engineering activities such as analysis, design & coding. The format technical review (FTR) is most effective filter from a quality assurance point of view. The primary objective of FTR is to find errors during the process so that they should not become defect after the release of the software.Early discovery of errors is what we meant by a FTR.

The early detection of error causes the impact of it very negligible. So after each and every phase of the software there needs to be a FTR.

Let us find out the objective of the FTR:

• To uncover errors in function, logic or implementation for any representation of software.
• To verify that the software under review meets its requirements.
• To ensure that the software has been represented according to predefined standards.
• To achieve software that is developed in a uniform manner.
• To make projects more manageable.

It does includes walkthroughs, inspections, round-robin reviews and other small technical assessments of software. The key point to make a review meeting successful is that it should be properly planned, controlled and attended.


Next section will introduce you the guidelines of the FTR which needs to be followed.