Social aspects of a continuous inspection platform for software source code

ABSTRACT

Determining responsibility for a piece of source code is difficult when software is being developed collaboratively with weak code ownership. Nonetheless, a major factor for preventing "cowboy coding" and careless development of code is liability. We propose a tool for statistically acquiring per developer per document accountabilities and enable learning and self-monitoring processes within a development team while maintaining anonymity to a certain degree to not endanger team spirit.

In this paper we want to examine possible social effects on the development team that employment of our tool has.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.5 Testing and Debugging
          Subjects: Code inspections and walk-throughs

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.9 Management
          Subjects: Software quality assurance (SQA)

General Terms:
Human Factors

Keywords:
code inspection, code ownership, software quality