What are Technical Reviews in software testing
What are Technical Reviews?
In technical review, reviewers review the document with a main focus on the followings;
- Is the document following the Specification or not?
- Is the document following the technical standards and guidelines or not?
Technical review is peer review.
What kind of team members are suitable for technical reviews?
- Technical experts in the team are suitable persons for reviews.
- Mostly technical reviewers are from team members but sometimes an external reviewer can also be hired or outsourced to blindly review the working document.
- The author is mostly not sat with reviewer team because the presence of author can be a cause of business in review results.
What are participants of technical reviews?
Decision maker:
To get a decision.
Review leader:
To lead the review team.
Recorder:
To record all the meeting discussions and observations.
Technical members:
To check the document technically.
Author:
Author of the working document but the sometime author is absent in meeting to allow the reviewers to blindly review.
Management Members:
To manage all the review meeting from start to end.