From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ok sorry, it is just a book gives no feedback.
Date: 7 Jan 2001 12:16:09 -0500
Date: 2001-01-07T12:16:09-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YX75q1AagLFN@eisner.decus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x7v66jt40h3.fsf@smaug.pushface.org
In article <x7v66jt40h3.fsf@smaug.pushface.org>, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
> n_brunot@my-deja.com writes:
>
>> Assuming that one single person, however genius he is, can check
>> every single line code, and cannot make mistakes is totally
>> unrealistic and dangerous.
>
> Which is one reason for doing code inspection .. four heads, focussed
> on the job, for no more than two hours at a time, can find a lot of
> problems, and the process tends to enforce standards.
Some of the most useful comments I got out of many weeks of formal
inspection had to do with uniformity of comments and uniformity of
error reporting completeness. Those same individuals, reviewing
code one-by-one, do not provide such useful feedback to me outside
the "gang" environment.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-31 14:18 Ok sorry, it is just a book gives no feedback Mark Pagdin
2000-12-31 16:56 ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-31 16:57 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-01 11:03 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-01-02 9:23 ` Newsgroup cla (was: Ok sorry, it is just a book gives no feedback.) Anders Wirzenius
2001-01-02 10:44 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-02 13:21 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-02 12:45 ` Andrew Hately
2001-01-02 13:25 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-02 22:26 ` Ok sorry, it is just a book gives no feedback John English
2001-01-03 6:24 ` Nick Roberts
2001-01-04 13:14 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-04 15:49 ` n_brunot
2001-01-04 17:09 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-05 8:53 ` n_brunot
2001-01-05 13:45 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-05 21:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-01-06 4:05 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-06 17:11 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-06 20:26 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-06 22:40 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-07 1:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-07 4:19 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-07 17:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-08 12:26 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-08 12:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-08 15:01 ` Stephen Leake
2001-01-08 15:58 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-09 21:13 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-01-06 19:46 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-01-06 20:36 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-07 13:09 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-01-07 15:56 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-07 16:25 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-01-07 15:58 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-07 17:19 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-06 7:13 ` Simon Wright
2001-01-07 16:00 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-07 17:16 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2001-01-04 17:11 ` Robert Dewar
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