An effective source code review process for embedded software

Authors:
Masayuki Hirayama;Katsumi Ohno;Nao Kawai;Kichiro Tamaru;Hiroshi Monden
Affiliations:
Software Engineering Center, Information Technology Promotion Agency, Tokyo, Japan;Software Engineering Center, Information Technology Promotion Agency, Tokyo, Japan;Software Engineering Center, Information Technology Promotion Agency, Tokyo, Japan;Software Engineering Center, Information Technology Promotion Agency, Tokyo, Japan;Software Engineering Center, Information Technology Promotion Agency, Tokyo, Japan
Venue:
PROFES'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper discusses about the improvement of source code review process for embedded software development project, and also proposes an effective approach to source code review for embedded software. As the start point of the discussion, this paper firstly discusses the results of a survey we conducted of about 290 embedded software development projects in Japan from the viewpoint of quality. Next, this paper discusses the problems of current source code review process and the way for improvement of the process. In the discussion, we focus on quality characteristics in ISO/IEC9126 and apply this to our improved review process. That is, we propose a new review process which is based on selection of review target portion in the target source code and selection of the review check items. As for the selection of review check items, using the characteristics viewpoints in ISO/IEC9126, review check items are selected according to the target software features.