Title :
Contemporary Peer Review in Action: Lessons from Open Source Development
Author :
Rigby, Peter C. ; Cleary, Brendan ; Painchaud, Frederic ; Storey, Margaret-Anne ; German, Daniel M.
Author_Institution :
Concordia Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
Do you use software peer reviews? Are you happy with your current code review practices? Even though formal inspection is recognized as one of the most effective ways to improve software quality, many software organizations struggle to effectively implement a formal inspection regime. Open source projects use an agile peer review process-based on asynchronous, frequent, incremental reviews that are carried out by invested codevelopers-that contrasts with heavyweight inspection processes. The authors describe lessons from the OSS process that transfer to proprietary software development. They also present a selection of popular tools that support lightweight, collaborative, code review processes and nonintrusive metric collection.
Keywords :
DP industry; formal verification; inspection; public domain software; software quality; software reviews; OSS process; agile peer review process; code review practices; code review process; collaborative review process; contemporary peer review; formal inspection regime; heavyweight inspection processes; invested codevelopers; lightweight review process; nonintrusive metric collection; open source development; open source projects; proprietary software development; software organizations; software peer reviews; software quality; Agile manufacturing; Electronic mail; Programming; Software development; Software engineering; Software quality; agile development; inspection; open source software development; software peer review; software quality;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
