| Systems continue to be delivered that do not meet stake holder expectations. Many of the problems in such systems can be traced back to erroneous requirements. Requirement errors occur because of inadequate inspections conducted during their preparation. This dissertation describes research on an approach to improve the inspection process. Specifically, it addresses the more formal development of goodness properties used during an inspection.; The heart of this research is the Property Selection Criteria (PSC) process. Initially, drivers were identified for the PSC, then a PSC was built to address each driver, and finally the PSCs were used to select goodness properties. No similar process was found in the literature so this process was developed from scratch. Application of the PSC process led to a new set of goodness properties, called High Quality Properties (HQPs). Since there was no previous work like the PSC process, evidence of the effectiveness of the PSC process was pursued through its product, the HQPs. A case study was chosen to obtain some empirical data on how effective some of the HQPs were when used in an inspection. Two inspections were conducted using the goodness properties of consistency and completeness. Results from the inspections supported the results of this research. |
