Chapter 3 presents static testing techniques in software development, highlighting the importance of early quality feedback through methods like reviews. It outlines the phases of a formal review process, including roles such as moderator, author, scribe, and reviewer, and describes different types of reviews including walkthroughs, technical reviews, and inspections. Key success factors for effective reviews include planning, training participants, and continuous process improvement.

1. Chapter 3
Static Techniques
Wiwik Muslehatin
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Dept. Information System
State Islamic University
of SUSKA RIAU
Faculty of Science And Technology

2. Agenda :
 Reviews And The Test Process
 Phases of a formal review
 Roles and responsibilities
 Types of review
 Success factors for reviews

3. Reviews And The
Test Process
1
The definition of testing outlines
objectives that relate to evaluation,
revealing defects and quality. As
indicated in the definition two
approaches can be used to
achieve these objectives, static
testing and dynamic testing.
Dynamic testing methods,
software is executed using a set of
input values and its output is then
examined and compared to what
is expected
During static testing, software
work products are examined
manually, or with a set of tools, but
not executed.

4. To summarize, the use of static testing, e.g. reviews, on software
work products has various advantages:
 Since static testing can start early in the life cycle, early
feedback on quality issues can be established, e.g. an early
validation of user requirements and not just late in the life cycle
during acceptance testing.
 By detecting defects at an early stage, rework costs are most
often relatively low and thus a relatively cheap improvement of
the quality of software products can be achieved.
 Since rework effort is substantially reduced, development
productivity figures are likely to increase.
 The evaluation by a team has the additional advantage that
there is an exchange of information between the participants.
 Static tests contribute to an increased awareness of quality
issues.
Reviews And The
Test Process

5. “
Phases of a
formal review
A typical formal review process consists of six
main steps:
1. Planning
2. Kick-off
3. Preparation
4. Review meeting
5. Rework
6. Follow-up.

6. The best formal reviews come from well-organized
teams, guided by trained moderators (or review leaders).
Within a review team, four types of participants can be
distinguished:
 Moderator,
 Author,
 Scribe
 Reviewer.
Roles and responsibilities

7. Types of review
Walkthrough
A walkthrough is
characterized by the
author of the document
under review guiding the
participants through the
document and his or her
thought processes, to
achieve a common
understanding and to
gather feedback. This is
especially useful if
people from outside the
software discipline are
present, who are not
used to, or cannot easily
understand software
development
documents.
Technical review
A technical review is a
discussion meeting that focuses
on achieving consensus about
the technical content of a
document. Compared to
inspections, technical reviews
are less formal and there is little
or no focus on defect
identification on the basis of
referenced documents, intended
readership and rules. During
technical reviews defects are
found by experts, who focus on
the content of the document. The
experts that are needed for a
technical review are, for
example, architects, chief
designers and key users. In
practice, technical reviews vary
from quite informal to very
formal.

8. Types of review
Inspection
Inspection is the most formal review
type. The document under inspection is
prepared and checked thoroughly by the
reviewers before the meeting, comparing
the work product with its sources and
other referenced documents, and using
rules and checklists. In the inspection
meeting the defects found are logged and
any discussion is postponed until the
discussion phase. This makes the
inspection meeting a very efficient
meeting.

9.  Find a 'champion‘
 Pick things that really count
 Explicitly plan and track review
activities
 Train participants
 Manage people issues
 Follow the rules but keep it simple
 Continuously improve process and tools
 Report results
 Just do it!
Success factors
for reviews

10. Referensi :
Graham, Dorothy, et al. “Foundation of software Testing ISTBQ
Sertification”. Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Testing. 2011