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2004 Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC'04)
Teaching the Process of Code Review
Melbourne, Australia
April 13-April 16
ISBN: 0-7695-2089-8
Tor Stalhane, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Cat Kutay, University of new South Wales, Australia
Hiyam Al-Kilidar, University of new South Wales, Australia
Ross Jeffery, University of new South Wales, Australia; NICTA, Australia
Behavioural theory predicts that interventions that improve individual reviewers' expertise also improve the performance of the group in Software Development Technical Reviews (SDTR) [The Effectiveness of Software Development Reviews: A Behaviourally Motivated Program of Research]. This includes improvements both in individual's expertise in the review process, as well as their ability to find defects and distinguish true defects from false positives. This paper presents findings from University training in these skills using authentic problems. The first year the course was run it was designed around actual code review sessions, the second year this was expanded to enable students to develop and trial their own generic process for Document Reviews. This report considers the values and shortcomings of the teaching program from an extensive analysis of the defect detection in the first year, when students were involved in a review process that was set up for them, and student feedback from the second year when students developed and analysed their own process.
Citation:
Tor Stalhane, Cat Kutay, Hiyam Al-Kilidar, Ross Jeffery, "Teaching the Process of Code Review," aswec, pp.271, 2004 Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC'04), 2004
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