PLOS/Mozilla Scientific Code Review Pilot: Summary of Findings

Marian Petre; Greg Wilson

PLOS/Mozilla Scientific Code Review Pilot: Summary of Findings

Software Engineering 2013-11-12 v1

Authors: Marian Petre , Greg Wilson

Abstract

PLOS and Mozilla conducted a month-long pilot study in which professional developers performed code reviews on software associated with papers published in PLOS Computational Biology. While the developers felt the reviews were limited by (a) lack of familiarity with the domain and (b) lack of two-way contact with authors, the scientists appreciated the reviews, and both sides were enthusiastic about repeating the experiment.

Keywords

code review scientific software pilot study PLOS Computational Biology software reproducibility developer-scientist collaboration

Cite

@article{arxiv.1311.2412,
  title  = {PLOS/Mozilla Scientific Code Review Pilot: Summary of Findings},
  author = {Marian Petre and Greg Wilson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.2412},
  year   = {2013}
}

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