New paper: Code Review in Digital Humanities

Malte Vogl | Sep 28, 2024 min read
Flow diagram of the community code review process: authors submit review requests, editors assign reviewers, and reviewed repositories receive a badge.

Software errors can quietly undermine digital humanities research, but code review — a standard quality-control practice in software engineering — is hard to do when most DH developers work alone or in teams of one to three. This paper shares progress and insights from an effort to establish a community code review process for digital humanities, and makes the case for why it matters.

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  • Authors: Julia Damerow, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Jeffrey C. Carver, and Malte Vogl
  • Journal: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2024)
  • DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqae052
  • Featured image: figure from the paper (the community code review process)