From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5265ce03ee8f5252 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-07 09:19:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ok sorry, it is just a book gives no feedback. Message-ID: References: <931r2l$4ai5t$2@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <931t08$5u5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <932632$e0e$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <932an8$ijs$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93421h$2ju$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: LJK Software Date: 7 Jan 2001 12:16:09 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 978887774 216.44.122.34 (Sun, 07 Jan 2001 17:16:14 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 17:16:14 GMT Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3756 Date: 2001-01-07T12:16:09-05:00 List-Id: In article , Simon Wright 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.