This guest blog post is from Wes McClure, Software Consultant and Founder of Full City Tech Co., a JetBrains Training and Consulting Partner.  In Approaching Automation, I outlined a series of steps to follow to make worthwhile investments in automation. In the following example, I’ll show how to apply these steps to a software development process. Inspecting code can provide valuable insight into improving the design of a system. Inspection tools are most valuable when they’re integrated with the environments that developers use to create software. They can provide instant feedback to imp