Perhaps unlikely. Or really surprising. But not absurd.
Imagine some reviewer who rejects all code reviews that don't have some recognizable pattern in them from the gang of four book. Fully complete and working code gets hacked up last minute to accommodate this person who has more seniority than sense.
Or ... maybe someone who always want there to be a single return in every function. Or heck, someone who demands that you always do early return. Either way they demand that some carefully crafted code is swapped over to the equivalent dual. And during that transformation a mistake is make that nobody notices.
I think the point is that the science way to indicate that code reviews work is to actually do the experiment. Instead of just saying, "why that's absurd that a code review could cause more defects."
I mean isn't that how hand washing got introduced into medicine? "Hey everyone, let's try washing our hands!" "Why, the hands of a gentleman are always clean. It's absurd to suggest that we should wash our hands."
Imagine some reviewer who rejects all code reviews that don't have some recognizable pattern in them from the gang of four book. Fully complete and working code gets hacked up last minute to accommodate this person who has more seniority than sense.
Or ... maybe someone who always want there to be a single return in every function. Or heck, someone who demands that you always do early return. Either way they demand that some carefully crafted code is swapped over to the equivalent dual. And during that transformation a mistake is make that nobody notices.
I think the point is that the science way to indicate that code reviews work is to actually do the experiment. Instead of just saying, "why that's absurd that a code review could cause more defects."
I mean isn't that how hand washing got introduced into medicine? "Hey everyone, let's try washing our hands!" "Why, the hands of a gentleman are always clean. It's absurd to suggest that we should wash our hands."