Peer Review

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Peer Review

• Jose Maria Barquin
• Josh Rhoades
• CSE360

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What is peer review?

• A form of review of any publicized work where
  members of a formal team or community edit and
  revise their peers work.
• Scope Software, Books, Articles, any written
  work

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Types of Peer Review

• Formal Reviews
• Inspection
• Blind Peer Review
• Informal Review
• Team Review
• Walkthrough program flow review
• Pair Programming simultaneous programming
• Peer Deskcheck only one person reviews
• Passaround everybody reviews
• Open Source

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What are the benefits?

• Spread of knowledge among team members
• Increased number of bugs found
• Less testing and rework

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What are the downfalls?

• Peer Bias
• Against an individual
• Against their group of affiliation
• Assumed skill by reputation
• Idea Theft

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Who is involved in Peer Review?

• Team Members
• Managers (if software engineers)
• Opposite/Unrelated teams
• Professional Editors
• Security reviews, unit testing