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From: tmcclory@emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM (Thomas.J.Tom.McClory)
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Subject: Re: code reviews
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Date: 21 Jun 89 21:04:28 GMT
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In article <8906161716.AA16121@kronos.ADS.COM> rar@KRONOS.ADS.COM (Bob Riemenschneider) writes:
>There's a very useful account of the why's and how's of code review in
>
>	_Handbook of Walkthroughs, Inspections, and Technical Reviews_
>	Daniel P. Freedman and Gerald M. Weinberg
>	Little, Brown (ISBN 0-316-292826)
>
>Everything you want to know about various alternative approaches, and then 
>some.  As far as I know, the third edition (1982) is the most recent.
>
>							-- rar

I will throw in references for the "Design & Code Inspection Process", 
a specific variation of the general peer review methods.

M. E. Fagan, "Design and Code Inspections to Reduce Errors in
Program Development," _IBM Systems Journal_, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1976,
pp. 182-211.
	Combines both a "how to" of the process as
	with the results of using the process 
	several IBM products.

M. E. Fagan, "Advances in Inspection,", _IEEE Transactions on 
Software Engineering_, July 1986, pp. 744-751.
	A follow-on work to the paper above that refines
	the process description, and documents additional
	successes using the process.

J. H. Dobbins, "Inspections as an Up-Front Quality Technique," in the 
_Handbook of Software Quality Assurance_, G. G. Schulmeyer and J.
I. McManus, eds., Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1987, pp. 137-177.
	A case study of inspections as used by the IBM 
	Federal Systems Division.  Describes how the process
	was implemented and the process measurements that
	the Q.A. staff implemented.  Describes how statistical
	process control can be applied to software development.

A. Frank Ackerman, L. S. Buchwald, and F. H. Lewski, "Software
Inspections: An Effective Verification Process," _IEEE Software_,
May, 1989, pp. 31-36.
	A good overview description.  The two Fagan papers are
	better how-to descriptions, but this is a good
	place to start if you don't know about inspections.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Thomas J. McClory			phone: (513)445-6819
Engineering & Manufacturing-Dayton	email: tmcclory@emdeng.NCR.COM
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