Code Reviews Enhance Software Quality

This paper discusses a procedure for reviewing code changes that are made to a software product as it moves through its life cycle. In this procedure the technical manager reviews each change made to the code. The procedure succeeded in improving in product quality by 40% at a cost of 1-2% of the project effort. Keywords Code reviews, softwareengineering, softwarequality

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Richard A. Baker Jr.
• Keywords: Code Changes, ICSE 1997, Keywords Code Reviews, Procedure, Software Engineering