Also known as Software Inspection Techniques or Reading Techniques...
- Ad-hoc
- Checklist
- Reading By Stepwise Abstraction - Examine key sub-programs and work your way up.
- Active Design Reviews - Questionnaires are used to focus the attention of the reviewers.
- DefectBasedReading
- PerspectiveBasedReading
Apparently experiments conducted at the University of Maryland (
VictorBasili) showed that checklist methods are no more effective than ad-hoc in finding defects.