Spot Checks
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Simple Description
Spot checks are an implementation of the Peer Reviews practice, and represent a very informal practice of "peers" reviewing work in an ad hoc way.
Primary Name
Spot Checks
Also Known As
Spot Audit, Spot Test
Core Process
Spans the whole core process: Requirements, Build, and Publish
Purpose
Ensure accuracy, acceptability and conformance (i.e. Quality).
Description
Spot checks are are a way of performing peer reviews. They are considered informal, and may range from a team lead randomly looking a chunks of code to ensure code style conformance to peers reviewing other peers' code in an ad hoc manner.
Typically, they take little time, are easy to implement, are less invasive (than other peer review approaches) but provide less value than full reviews. The idea comes from quality control in manufacturing, where inspections can't be done against all products. Statistically, spot checks give a cheaper way of reviewing the quality of work created.
