I just read this pretty interesting article on the Google Engineering
Tools website, thought it might interest some people here:
http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/12/bug-prediction-at-google.html
( http://goo.gl/2O6YT <= a short link in case the above one gets wrapped)
It basically describes a new process in place at Google whereby each
file within a project is assigned a rating saying how likely the given
file is to have a bug in it compared to everything else. This can be
used by code reviewers so they can take extra care when reviewing
certain changes.
I really think github needs built in review tools (more advanced than
just pull requests) to allow things like the auto-tester to be run, or
algorithms like this to be used for manual review and so on.
--
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
