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Code Review For and By Scientists

21 Jul 2014arXiv:1407.5648links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Marian Petre, Greg Wilson

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We describe two pilot studies of code review by and for scientists. Our principal findings are that scientists are enthusiastic, but need to be shown code review in action, and that just-in-time review of small code changes is more likely to succeed than large-scale end-of-work reviews.

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