Code Reviews

There are two primary means of testing any software, computer-based testing and human-based testing.Computer-based software testing requires automated tools to generate the test cases and subsequently to execute them. Human-based software testing, on the other hand, involves the visual inspection of a software fragment by a team of qualified individuals. While computer-based testing has its merits, human-based testing of software has also been found to detect errors effectively. These techniques are complementary, and both should be used for improving the quality of any software. The prevalence of certain types of errors[Bas93] in object-oriented software also warrants the use of human-based software testing due to the lack of good computer tools to detect these types of errors.