Use Standards to Ground Code Reviews

10 May 2022 by Phillip JohnstonWhile primary purpose of a code review is to find defects in the code, they are also used to ensure that code meets the team’s standards. However, many code reviews are painful precisely because team’s don’t have documented standards, causing reviews to devolve into debates about style or into a war of personal preferences. One way to significantly improve your code reviews is to have your team sit down and agree upon standards that code will be judged against. Nobody likes to be surprised, and that is especially true when receiving feedback from reviewers. It …

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