This concise book teaches software professionals and software engineering students the full set of twenty software reading techniques to enhance their effectiveness in reviewing and inspecting software artifacts such as requirements specifications, designs, code files, and usability. 

Software review and inspection is the best practice in software development whose purpose is to detect and fix problems early. Software professionals are trained to write software but not read and analyze software written by peers. As a result, individual reading skills vary widely. Because the effectiveness of software review and inspection is highly dependent on individual reading skills, differential outcomes among software readers vary by a factor of ten. Software Reading Techniques is designed to close that gap.

Dr Yang¿Ming Zhu's depth of experience as a software architect, team leader, and scientist make him singularly well-equipped to bring software readers up to speed on all the techniques and tips for optimizing their effectiveness and efficiency, including the following:

• Software review and inspection procedures and reading skills
  
• Traditional and modern advanced reading techniques applicable to almost all software artifacts
  
• Specific reading techniques for software requirements specification, software design, and code

Yang¿Ming Zhu is Principal Scientist at Philips Healthcare, currently serving as the software architect for the Recon and Imaging Physics team for Advanced Molecular Imaging. He practices and researches image processing and software engineering with a focus on software architecture, requirements engineering, best practices, software quality, and processes. He is a senior member of IEEE and has published more than 80 book chapters and papers in such journals as IEEE Software, IEEE IT Professional, IEEE Trans Medical Imaging, IEEE Trans Image Processing, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, and Applied Physical Letters. He holds nine US patents (additional seven are pending approval), numerous professional awards, the Software Architecture Professional Certificate from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and advanced degrees in computer science (MS from Kent State University), biomedical engineering (MS/BS from Shanghai Jiaotong University), and physics (PhD from Southeast University).

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Software Review Procedures.- Chapter 3. Basic Software Reading Techniques.- Chapter 4. ScenariöBased Reading Techniques.- Chapter 5. Requirements Reading Techniques.- Chapter 6. Design Reading Techniques.- Chapter 7. Code Reading Techniques.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.