Learn twenty software reading techniques to enhance your effectiveness in reviewing and
inspecting software artifacts such as requirements specifications designs code files and
usability. Software review and inspection is the best practice in software development that
detects and fixes problems early. Software professionals are trained to write software but not
read and analyze software written by peers. As a result individual reading skills vary widely.
Because the effectiveness of software review and inspection is highly dependent on individual
reading skills differential outcomes among software readers vary by a factor of ten. Software
Reading Techniques is designed to close that gap. Dr Yang-Ming Zhu's depth of experience as a
software architect team leader and scientist make him singularly well-equipped to bring you
up to speed on all the techniques and tips for optimizing the effectiveness and efficiency of
your software review and inspection skills. What You'll Learn: Improve software review
inspection procedures and reading skills Study traditional and modern advanced reading
techniques applicable to software artifacts Master specific reading techniques for software
requirements specification software design and code Who This Book Is For: Software
professionals and software engineering students and researchers