Peer Code Review

Types of code reveiw

formal inspection

author

reveiwer (who ndoes the explained based on the review, no author input till meeting)

observer

• over-the-shoulder
• pair prog
• tool assisted: file gathering, combined display: diff comments defects, automated metric collection, review enforcement,
• email pass around

Code Errors

severity

major, minor

type

algorithm, documentation, data-usage, error-handling, input, output

phase-injection

developer error, design oversight, requirements mistake, QA error

biblio

best kept xsecrets of peer code review

• code inspection - michael fagan ibm 1974 (29pgs)