ISO/IEC 23396:2020 システムおよびソフトウェアエンジニアリング—レビューツールの機能 | ページ 2

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Introduction

It is widely recognized that almost all software development organizations need to improve the quality of software at an appropriate cost and review is one important means. Applying reviews early in the lifecycle is known to reduce the amount of unnecessary rework in regular projects. This is because problem detection in upstream requires less cost than detection of problems by performing tests in downstream processes. By conducting the review in this way, it is possible to detect problems early, evaluate alternatives, improve organizational and personal processes, and improve work outcomes. ISO/IEC 20246 specifies a standard process for work product reviews.

Review support tools provide capabilities to improve review work and improve review quality, for example support for collaboration and communication between reviewers, logging and highlighting comments made on a work product, and support for review report generation.

Support tools are indispensable in the large-scale development project where the number of items pointed out in the review exceeds one thousand. Support tools are also actively used in small and medium-sized projects to improve review quality and efficiency. Indeed, various kinds of “review tools” are provided. For example, there is a relatively simple capability that allows you to add comments as a tag using the macro function of document creation. On the other hand, there are tools to support the progress management of the entire project in the large-scale development in which dozens of reviewers point out issues and the project manager monitors the status of the review implementation status.

In large organizations, it is very important to select appropriate tools from among various kinds of review tools. It is essential that the selected tool has a high degree of fairness and is evaluated according to public standards. For this purpose, ISO/IEC 20741 on the process of evaluation and selection of software engineering tools was published in 2017. However, ISO/IEC 20741 does not prescribe standard capabilities specific to reviews because it is generalized without depending on a specific tool field.

This document aims to define the capabilities of review support tools and to select the appropriate tool in combination with ISO/IEC 20741 for tool evaluation and selection (see Annex E). The review support tool assumed in this document supports the entire process specified in ISO/IEC 20246. For example, capabilities which support personal activities such as viewing and pointing out deliverables are necessary, and capabilities which support group activities such as reporting of situations are necessary (see Annex D). It is assumed that the check work itself such as the source code check defined in the ISO/IEC 30130 test tool is not included, and it is assumed that humans are checking.

1 Scope

This document specifies the capabilities of a tool to support review work.

The evaluation and selection of the review tools are performed in accordance with ISO/IEC 20741 which defines the general evaluation selection process and evaluation characteristics. This document defines capabilities specific to review tools in the process. By using these two standards together, it is possible to derive objective and reasonable results of the evaluation and selection of review tools.

The review work is based on the process, activities, and tasks defined in ISO/IEC 20246. It is also assumed that the review targets are defined in ISO/IEC 20246. The review work in this document is assumed not to be performed by a 3rd party, but within a project.

The review tool capabilities specified in this document harmonize with the review process defined in ISO/IEC 20246. This document does not include automated process, activities, or tasks for conducting reviews such as automated source code checkers defined in ISO/IEC 30130.

Issues which are identified in the review are recorded and managed by the tool; but defects found in tests and issues found in general except for reviews are out of the scope of this document.

2 Normative references

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO/IEC 20246 and the following apply.

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