Software inspections are the most rigorous form of peer reviews and an important element in the process of software product verification. The NSQE contains software inspection results collected during 1992-2000 from dozens of organizations that have supplied thousands of core samples to this national database. This database serves as a calibrating benchmark for those wishing to reason about software inspections metrics. A presentation on the NSQE was made at the STC Conference 2000 and a CrossTalk web-article on this appeared in December 1998. The NSQE supplies the initial measurements and metrics needed by an organization to set its expectations.
People constantly ask about tools for software inspections.
They also ask about the National Software Quality Experiment. You mention some of the incredible advances that have been made in the field of modeling and simulation, and you contrasted these successes with some areas in which good simulations seem to be strangely absent. Those areas are the motivation of this correspondence. I can think of some human relationships that could use some practice. For those of you who have teenagers, I wonder if a simulation of parent-teen relationships would help.