Solution Domain Expert Reviewers

These are experienced programmers (note that they are not experienced software engineers).

They usually come from a local software house, and are often recent graduates.

Take the comments out of the code before you let them review it.

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What is the difference (in your mind) between a programmer and a software engineer? I consider myself the latter, whereas I think of a programmer as someone who simply cuts code and has no involvement in the analysis or design of the actual application. --KeithDerrick

Software engineers are either failed programmers or programmers who are stuck in hopelessly unproductive legacy settings, and need to compensate with a title that speaks to their FormalismEnvy?.

The term was first proposed (by PeterNaur, I believe) at an early conference as an intentionally provocative term that evoked the kind of discipline programmers might aspire to; it wasn't originally intended to be a serious field of endeavor. Some people still don't get the joke.

-- JimCoplien

I'm not sure that I follow how a recent graduate can be an experienced programmer. On the other hand, I consider myself a programmer (and think of the term software engineer as a synonym -- with apologies to those who feel otherwise as I don t mean to offend).

-- ChuckSiska