Code Review, you said? by Venkat Subramaniam

Improve code quality, developer skills, and teamwork with effective code review techniques, emphasizing empathy, humility, and constructive feedback in a safe and collaborative environment.

Key takeaways

Code reviews are both technical and sociological
Create a safe environment for honest feedback
Code reviews make developers smarter and help improve code quality
Involve the author of the code in the review process
Rotate pairing and code review pairs frequently
Review code in tandem with automated tests
Avoid priesthood-based code review
Empathy is key to good code reviews
Code reviews reflect humility
Humility is important for learning and improvement
Agile development is feedback-driven development
Make code reviews constructive and focused on improvement, not ego
Personal communication skills are important for effective code reviews
Pride in one’s own code should be set aside to improve code quality
Collaboration and collective ownership lead to better code
The “truck factor” is the number of people in your team that need to be run over by a truck for the project to fail

Code Review, you said? by Venkat Subramaniam

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