If you're adding on to your house in DeKalb, Fulton, or Cobb County, there will be a framing inspection, and it happens at a specific moment: after the structure is up and the rough-in trades are done, but before any insulation or drywall covers anything. Everything has to be visible.
The inspector is not admiring your carpentry. They are tracing a load path. Weight comes down through the roof structure into headers over openings, through the walls and their studs, into beams and posts, and finally into the footings. At every transfer point, they want to see something adequate carrying the load: a header sized for its span, jack studs under each end of it, a post that lands on a beam or a footing rather than on unsupported floor sheathing.
Second, they check connections. Modern residential code is largely a fastener code. Hurricane ties at the rafter-to-plate connection, straps at the sheathing, correct nailing pattern and spacing at the shear walls, and approved hardware at every hanger. This is where the framing schedule slows down and homeowners sometimes wonder what's taking so long. What's taking so long is the nailing, and it's the part that keeps the roof attached in a windstorm.
Third, they check what other trades did to your frame. Plumbers and electricians have to run pipe and wire through structural members, and there are limits on how much of a joist or stud can be drilled or notched before it stops being structural. A drain line cut through the bottom of a floor joist is one of the most common failures we see, and it usually has to be repaired with a sistered member before the inspection passes.
One thing worth knowing as a homeowner: a failed framing inspection is not a disaster and it isn't rare. The inspector writes a correction list, the framer fixes it, and they come back. What is a genuine problem is drywall going up before the inspection happens, because then it all comes back down. If your contractor is scheduling insulation before the frame has been signed off, ask why.