inspection process these insights can even further be used. Together with the qualitative benefits mentioned above major "cost improvements" can be reached as the avoidance and earlier detection of errors will reduce the amount of resources needed for debugging in later phases of the project. In practice very positive results have been reported by large corporations such as IBM, indicating that 80% to 90% of defects can be found and savings in resources up to 25% can be reached. Improvements Although the Fagan inspection method has been proved to be very effective, improvements have been suggested by multiple researchers. M. Genuchten for example has been researching the usage of an Electronic Meeting System (EMS) to improve the productivity of the meetings with positive results Other researchers propose the usage of software that keeps a database of detected errors and automatically scans program code for these common errors. This again should result in improved productivity. References Ron Radice, High Quality, Low Cost Software Inspections, Paradoxicon Publishing (September 21, 2001) Method engineering Quality Software testing