Improvement of Fault Detection performance with Reading Procedure Instruction in Code Review
Ouji Saori, Hidetake Uwano · 2015
Fault detection efficiency at careful source code reading (that is, code review) is significantly different between reviewers. In this paper, authors investigate the effect of review procedure instruction which formed from effective reviewers’ reading process to reviewers. Our instruction for the reviewer consists of three steps, 1) read design specification at the initial phase of review, 2) read the entire source codes to understand structure of the program, and 3) verify the consistency between the design specifications and the source code. In the experiment, authors divide subjects into two groups and instruct the above steps to a group and compare the fault detection efficiency. The result of the experiment shows that the group with the instruction significantly improved their fault detection ratio.