{"id":58,"date":"2010-03-13T16:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T21:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-03-13T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T22:07:37","slug":"code-review-using-tablets-literature-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/2010\/03\/13\/code-review-using-tablets-literature-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Code review using tablets \u2013 literature review (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I hope to find all (yeah, I know) previous work related to tablets and code review. I’m not going to read all of it, but all I need at this point is a good idea of what’s been done so far – that will help me understand how much previous work I can rely on and whether this project is original enough as I have defined it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m also starting to save local copies of all these papers, I have a feeling getting them via the library channel is going to be too painful long-term.<\/p>\n

“Reflowing Digital Ink Annotations” is about the mechanics of keeping freeform annotations useful even if the text is edited. Looks like serious work. Referenced from “CodeAnnotator: Digital Ink Annotation within Eclipse\u201d – it’s a must read if an implementation needing such functionality is to be created. I don’t expect such functionality will be available in my project, that’s out of scope for me.<\/p>\n

“Annotation: from paper books to the digital library”, “Toward an ecology of hypertext annotation”, “Developing marking support within Eclipse”, “An Architecture for Ink Annotations on Web Documents”, “Beyond paper: supporting active reading with free form digital ink annotations”, “Spatial recognition and grouping of text and graphics”, “Web Page Marker: a Web Browsing Support System based on Marking”, “Robust annotation positioning in digital documents”, “Preliminary experiences with a tablet PC based system to support active learning in computer science courses”, “Onscreen marking support for formative assessment”, “Ad-hoc Collaborative Document Annotation on a Tablet PC”, “Improving Software Quality” are not very interesting but I may want to look at them later for more basic studies.<\/p>\n

“Teaching with Tablet PCs” is nearly off-topic but they used an interesting system – the annotations were done using a “virtual transparency” over the desktop – an interesting idea.<\/p>\n

“Effects of Annotations on Student Readers and Writers” is also irrelevant but talks about an interesting topic – how annotated material influences subsequent readers.<\/p>\n

“Pen-based interaction techniques for organizing material on an electronic whiteboard” mentions another technology I haven’t yet considered – electronic whiteboards. I should read this one, to see what issues they came up with.<\/p>\n

“An instrumented approach to improving software quality through formal technical review” looks like a serious study of code review, mentions something particularly curious: “a great deal of expensive human technical resources. For example, a recent study documents that a single code inspection of a 20 KLOC software system consumes one person-year of effort by skilled technical staff.”. Wow. I have to read all of this to see what problems they uncovered and whether tablets can help solve any of them.<\/p>\n

There is more of course, and depending on how wide and deep I want to take the literature review – I can spend a year on it. For now this should do.<\/p>\n

My exasperation at the end of yesterday’s post was not well placed. Except for the unfortunate fact that I won’t be the first to implement such a system – there is definitely room for more research. And very little work (almost none, really) has been done to put code review and tablet annotations together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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