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.