Peer review

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Peer review and software development

A variety of kinds of peer review are used in various software development processes at several stages of the development process, including requirements definition, preliminary design, detailed design, and coding. Some of the more formal and rigorous approaches are termed software inspection. In the open source movement, something like peer review has taken place in the engineering and evaluation of computer software. In this context, the rationale for peer review has its equivalent in Linus's law, often phrased: "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", meaning "If there are enough reviewers, all problems are easy to solve." Eric S. Raymond has written influentially about peer review in software development, for example in the essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The value of peer review is largely that it identifies issues earlier than they would otherwise be identified (by testing or by users), which minimizes the amount of effort and cost associated.

Related Topics:
Software inspection - Open source - Computer software - Linus's law - Eric S. Raymond - Software development - The Cathedral and the Bazaar

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