Are good code reviewers also good at design review?

Hidetake Uwano; Akito Monden; Ken Ichi Matsumoto

doi:10.1145/1414004.1414079

Are good code reviewers also good at design review?

Hidetake Uwano, Akito Monden, Ken Ichi Matsumoto

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

Software review is a necessity activity to build high reliability software in software development. In this paper, we experimentally analyze the difference in performance between two types of (checklist based) software reviews: design review and code review. If good code reviewers were also good at design review, then we should assign good code reviewers to the design review too. If not, that means these two reviews require different types of expertise. In our experiment, with ten review participants, we examined two hypotheses each related to the defect detection ratio and the required time to find a defect. As a result, we found that there was no correlation between two reviews, i.e. good code reviewers were not necessarily the good design reviewers. This suggests the need of a completely different training program for each review.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ESEM'08
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Pages	351-353
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1414004.1414079
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2008 - Kaiserslautern, Germany Duration: Oct 9 2008 → Oct 10 2008

Publication series

Name	ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Other

Other	2nd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2008
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Kaiserslautern
Period	10/9/08 → 10/10/08

Keywords

Code review
Design review
Experimental evaluation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Software
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Access to Document

10.1145/1414004.1414079

Cite this

Uwano, H., Monden, A., & Matsumoto, K. I. (2008). Are good code reviewers also good at design review? In ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (pp. 351-353). (ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement). https://doi.org/10.1145/1414004.1414079

Are good code reviewers also good at design review? / Uwano, Hidetake; Monden, Akito; Matsumoto, Ken Ichi.
ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. 2008. p. 351-353 (ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Uwano, H, Monden, A & Matsumoto, KI 2008, Are good code reviewers also good at design review? in ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, pp. 351-353, 2nd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2008, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 10/9/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1414004.1414079

Uwano H, Monden A, Matsumoto KI. Are good code reviewers also good at design review? In ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. 2008. p. 351-353. (ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement). doi: 10.1145/1414004.1414079

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