Automated Code Inspection: Investigating Deployment of Continuous Inspection

Sammanfattning: Developing high quality software is a challenging task and there are various techniques and processes proposed to achieve high quality of software. This project examines the process of continuous inspection that automatically reviews source code using modern technology, such as repository management services, continuous integration services and continuous code analysis tools. More specifically, this study examines how the continuous inspection process can be deployed effectively in a software team. The deployment was performed together with an interview-based study in order to get feedback on the integration alternatives of the process. The project resulted in a set of guidelines on how continuous inspection can be effectively integrated and how to establish a process that developers perceive as useful and seamlessly integrating into their workflow. These guidelines help to understand the benefits and drawbacks of integrating the continuous inspection process. Further studies are needed to investigate the integration of the continuous inspection process with different tools and features to fully answer the question how the continuous inspection process can be effectively deployed into software team’s development processes.