Does personality matter?: An analysis of code-review ability

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 109-112

  Da Cunha, Alessandra Devito ^a   Greathead, David ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTATION THEORY;

CODE-REVIEW; MENTAL PROCESSES;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 34248137984     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1230819.1241672     Document Type: Review

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