IBM Trying To Patent Timed Code Inspection 146
theodp writes "A just-published IBM patent application for a Software Inspection Management Tool claims to improve software quality by taking a chess-clock-like approach to code walkthroughs. An inspection rate monitor with 'a pause button, a resume button, a complete button, a total lines inspected indication, and a total lines remaining to be inspected indication' keeps tabs on participants' progress and changes color when management's expectations — measured in lines per hour — are not being met."
Re:what a stupid stupid idea (Score:5, Informative)
If I am understanding this correctly, the article refers to lines inspected, not written. So this is for the quality-control guys and not the main programmers.