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Inspection catches 60% more errors than testing

Research Finding:
Code inspection at NASA's Software Engineering Laboratory found 20 to 60 percent more errors than testing did.

Source:

Evaluating Software Engineering Technologies

• David N. Card, F.E. McGarry, and G.T. Page
• Recorded 1987 in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-13, no. 7, July
• Pages 845-51