Organizations and people who provide various services in the area of software inspections. These services may include training or tools, so the companies listed here may also be listed under those categories under "Inspections".
"Construx's inspection coaching includes the following activities:
Preparation Assistance. We'll work with your inspection moderator to select the deliverable to be inspected, assemble inspection packets, conduct the inspection kickoff, and confirm that all participants are ready of the inspection.
Inspection Observation. Construx will sit in on or more inspections. We'll summarize the current strengths and weaknesses of your process along with specific recommendations for improvement. Our coaching results in a specific actionable plan to increase the effectiveness of your inspections."
GrammaTech Inc - This service provider develops and market static-analysis and program-transformation tools for C/C++ and Ada. Their tools exploit the rules of a programming language's syntax and semantics to automate tasks that most engineers still perform manually with conventional tools. Tools include: CodeSonar and CodeSurfer for C/C++, and Ada-Assured and Ada-Utilities for Ada.
Integrated Productivity Solutions, LLC - IPS leverages 18 years of experience in training and implementing inspections in a variety of organizations for requirements, design, code, and test work products. IPS training goes beyond the process itself, stressing the relationship of inspections to business needs, support infrastructure necessary for success and special circumstances such as geographically dispersed teams.
Michael Fagan Associates - The company's logo is "Productivity Improvement Through Defect Free Development". The following information is from the company web site:
"In the fast paced worlds of software and hardware development, most organizations are faced with a compelling need to:
Reduce cycle time
Improve quality
Reduce costs
Improve productivity
Michael Fagan created the Fagan Defect-Free Process™ (of which Fagan Inspections are a key part) to address these requirements. And it works! Our clients have reported significant cycle time reductions while simultaneously improving product quality, reducing costs and improving productivity."
N R Malotaux Consultancy - This company functions as as an independent consultant to teach outsourcers as well as developers how to "optimise the development process", especially for electronics and software development. Areas of consulting include: Quality On Time - That is: Simply the right things, simply on time
- Evolutionary Project Management (Evo) - How to be on time with the right things
- Requirements Engineering and Management - What should be the result of the project: The Where, for Whom, What, how Well, When and Why
- Reviews - How to enhance the contents of any document
- Inspections - How to measure the quality of any document
Parasoft - Specializing in Automated Error Prevention (AEP) products and services to prevent errors and improve the quality and reliability of your software.
Process Impact - Process Impact is a service provider who focuses on practical software process improvement. Areas of expertise include requirements engineering, risk management, software peer reviews, project management, metrics, and process assessment.
Software Development Technologies - Headquartered in San Jose, CA, offers custom software testing and consulting services, training, methodologies and first-in-class test products since 1992. Led by SDT founder and CEO, Edward Kit, author of the best-selling book, "Software Testing in the Real World..improving the process," SDT's software testing solutions have been adopted by some of the most innovative and industry accepted organizations in the world. They are vendors for ReviewPro, a tool useful in software inspections.
Software Systems Quality Consulting (SSQC) - SSQC is positioned to help software and hardware developers, manufacturers, and service providers in six related areas: Software Process Improvement, Business Process Reengineering, Education and Training Services, ISO 9000 Implementation Services, Software Quality Assurance and Testing, and SEI Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Implementation Services.
SSQC is an active United States TAG member in the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 - Software Engineering Standards subcommittee which is responsible for the development and maintenance of ISO 12207, ISO 15504 (SPICE) and ISO 9000-3.
Stewart-Priven Group 'Software Inspection Methodology Experts' - SPG's inspection methodology identifies common pitfalls implementers of inspections encounter and provides solutions to each. It includes use of three sets of computerized tools for (1) project planning of inspections and estimating net savings, (2)inspector execution, and (3)management monitoring and tracking of inspection results.
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