Let`s Make it Fun: Gamifying and Formalizing Code Review

Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel, Irit Hadar

2016

Abstract

Code review is a highly important task in the software development lifecycle. However, some of the characteristics of code review hinder practitioners’ performance of this task. Code review is considered to be tedious and uninteresting, and includes challenging human aspects, such as collaboration among stakeholders. Despite the many concerns that need to be taken into consideration when performing code review, a comprehensive, formal definition thereof is yet to be determined. In a previous research, a set of formal guidelines for code review was presented, in the context of performing this task in a gamified environment. In this ongoing research, we explore whether the field of software engineering provides a formal definition for code review, and whether a formal definition is needed. The preliminary findings of this research indicate that while the field does provide several definitions for code review, in all that concerns the human aspect of this task, a formal definition is in order. As a response for this need, we present a framework of the task of code review toward its formalization, embedding gamification for motivation enhancement.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Unkelos-Shpigel N. and Hadar I. (2016). Let`s Make it Fun: Gamifying and Formalizing Code Review . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: COLAFORM, (ENASE 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-189-2, pages 391-395. DOI: 10.5220/0005937203910395

in Bibtex Style

@conference{colaform16,
author={Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel and Irit Hadar},
title={Let`s Make it Fun: Gamifying and Formalizing Code Review},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: COLAFORM, (ENASE 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={391-395},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005937203910395},
isbn={978-989-758-189-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: COLAFORM, (ENASE 2016)
TI - Let`s Make it Fun: Gamifying and Formalizing Code Review
SN - 978-989-758-189-2
AU - Unkelos-Shpigel N.
AU - Hadar I.
PY - 2016
SP - 391
EP - 395
DO - 10.5220/0005937203910395