Gestión integrada de la revisión por pares en el proceso de desarrollo de un proyecto web cuatrimestral

Abstract

This article presents a teaching experience based on the use of peer review (PR), along with self-assess- ments of the reviewer groups. These reviews are to- tally oriented to the improvement of the quality of the practical developments of the subject Web Systems within the Software Engineering specialty. In this subject, weekly deliveries of functionalities of a web project are made and three reviews of the project are planned. Once the reviews have been performed, we have found that, assigning developments of similar or higher quality to reviewers, the interest in carrying out this activity increases considerably. We have also noticed that, after the second peer review, in week seven, the quality of the developments of the groups with some deficiencies increases in general in the fol- lowing deliveries. Another issue, directly related to reviews, is the iden- tification of groups that must migrate either compul- sorily or optionally to a project selected by teachers, based on the assessments of their own peers. Self- evaluation helps to identify deficiencies with respect to the projects of their reviewed peers, deficiencies that make it difficult to accomplish the next deliver- ies. Once migration has been performed, it can be seen that those groups have mostly been able to com- plete the deliveries with a higher level of correction. This article describes in detail the planning and devel- opment of the reviews and the quantitative results ob- tained to support the conclusions.