The paper reviews for SPLuRGe serve a number of purposes:

1. Increasing the awareness of group members of current research in the area of software engineering.
2. Providing experience in preparing paper reviews for conferences/journals/etc.

Procedure

The following procedure was established so as to best meet the experience providing objective:

1. The discussion leader (a Ph'D student) chooses a paper to be reviewed. Papers are typically drawn from ICSE, FSE, OOPSLA, ECOOP, or AOSD. The paper needs to be approved by a faculty member (typically the student's supervisor). Depending on the seniority of the student they may not need to have a faculty member approve the paper.
2. The discussion leader sends a link to paper to the reading group mailing list.
3. The discussion leader and his/her co-reviewers (typically Master's students) prepare their reviews (see below for review format).
4. Co-reviewer's send their reviews to the discussion leader before/on the morning of the scheduled SPLuRGe meeting.
5. The discussion leader sends the reviews to the mailing list.
6. During the SPLuRGe meeting, each reviewer presents their review starting with the discussion leader. No other questions or comments are made until all the reviewers have spoken.
7. The paper is then opened to discussion.

Review Format

Paper reviews contain four sections:

1. Problem The problem addressed by the paper.
2. Contributions The key contributions put forth by the paper.
3. Weaknesses The key weaknesses of the paper.
4. Questions Things the reviewer did not understand, or ideas that should be discussued further.

-- Main.janvik - 06 Jun 2005