ISPIS: From Conception towards Industry Readiness

ISPIS, a framework for supporting software inspection processes, resulted from academic research. Its conceptual phase started by informally reviewing the state of the art regarding software inspections and formalizing a proposal for supporting them. The set of requirements of this proposal was mainly derived from knowledge acquired by experimental studies. Although the resulting implementation was promising, it was possible to evolve it after feedback gathered by applying an experimental methodology for taking a newly proposed technology from the conceptual phase through transfer to industry. This paper provides insight to the use of experimentation to allow technology transference from academia to industry, by describing step by step how the experimental studies of the methodology, helped to evolve ISPIS to the support it currently provides.