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Inspections are mentioned a lot. This is not a word I hear a lot of developers use, so I'm guessing this article is not written by one.

The cost of these has been completely externalized. Does the 85% reduction in defects come from a casual code review? Or are 3 senior developers doing Fagan inspections?

When an inspection reveals bugs, do we take into account the increased time to fix the bug because developers are informed about them after having forgotten some context?

Is static analysis incompatible with pairing?

Where does the 1.5 vs 1.6 defect rate come from? What about the rest of the numbers?

If a pair produces less LoC than someone soloing, couldn't this actually be a good thing? I know that the most productive coders I work with actually tend to delete more lines of code than they introduce.