Code Review Best Practices
Some hate it and some love it. It depends on style and intent of code review done by reviewer or understanding of reviewee. A great code review can reduce overall development cycle by minimizing bug leaks to higher environments and lead to a high-quality final product. On the other hand, poor code reviewing strategy can add unnecessary latencies in development cycle without mitigating any bugs. What is code review? A manual process of reviewing source code developed by a fellow programmer of a team. It can be performed by multiple people or be performed multiple times by the same person for a thorough analysis. Fews steps can be automated using code analysis tools available. Why do we need code review? The most apparent benefit is making sure bad code is not leaked to production. Other benefits of good code reviews are standardization, knowledge sharing, security checks, and building a sense of teamwork and collaboration. How-to do-good code reviews? There are several aspect...