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DOES PERSONALITY MATTER? AN ANALYSIS OF CODE-REVIEW ABILITY.

The article discusses the mental processes that lead to success and failure in code review during computer software engineering. The results of a study funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the British government's leading funding agency for research and training in engin...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 109 - 113
Main Authors: Da Cunha, Alessandra Devito, Greathead, David
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery May2007
Subjects:
Software engineering
Computer software
Computer industry
Computer programming
Computer programmers
Computer science
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the mental processes that lead to success and failure in code review during computer software engineering. The results of a study funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the British government's leading funding agency for research and training in engineering, which investigated if there is a specific personality type that is correlated with performance on code-review tasks, are analyzed. The study revealed that there are likely innate human traits that affect code review ability.