4/27/2008

IBM Trying To Patent Timed Code Inspection

Filed under: — Aviran Mordo @ 7:44 am

“A just-published IBM patent application for a Software Inspection Management Tool claims to improve software quality by taking a chess-clock-like approach to code walkthroughs. An inspection rate monitor with ‘a pause button, a resume button, a complete button, a total lines inspected indication, and a total lines remaining to be inspected indication’ keeps tabs on participants’ progress and changes color when management’s expectations — measured in lines per hour — are not being met.”

 

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