Short note on Informal Reviews

Short note on Informal Reviews

• Informal reviews include
• A simple desk check of a software engineering work product with a colleague,
• A casual meeting (involving more than two people) for the purpose of reviewing a work product,
• The review-oriented aspects of pair programming.
• A simple desk check or a casual meeting conducted with a colleague is a review.
• However, because there is no advance planning or preparation, no agenda or meeting structure, and no follow-up on the errors that are uncovered,
• the effectiveness of such reviews is considerably lower than more formal approaches. But a simple desk check can and does uncover errors that might otherwise propagate further into the software process.