[openstack-dev] Code review study

Grant Murphy gmurphy at redhat.com
Sun Aug 18 23:55:16 UTC 2013


On 08/15/2013 12:12 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> This may interest data-driven types here.
> 
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/11-proven-practices-for-peer-review/
> 
> Note specifically the citation of 200-400 lines as the knee of the
> review effectiveness curve: that's lower than I thought - I thought 200
> was clearly fine - but no.
> 
> -Rob
> 
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> Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com <mailto:rbtcollins at hp.com>>
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Interesting article. I've often pondered this point:

> 6. Use checklists

And whether it would be worth investing some time enhancing what is
already here https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReviewChecklist to help
reviewers identify common security related bugs (for example). Not sure
if people need / want this type of thing though.

- Grant.



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