Code Review Series: Introduction

I've got a lot of ideas about code review, and I'm excited to share them with you through a series of blogposts. I'm planning to publish one blogpost every other Monday for the next ~15 weeks.

I don't think that we (developers) talk about code review nearly enough. It's a part of the job that--in my personal experience--mostly gets ignored. We talk about coding best practices all the time. We talk about testing best practices. We talk about project management methodologies. We even talk about ticket-writing best practices! But have you ever heard anyone discuss code review best practices? (If yes, I'd love to meet this person and hear their ideas!)

I currently work on a very large team, so I have lots of developers to discuss code review with. But I'd still like to bounce my ideas off a wider audience. I'm really hoping to get feedback (especially feedback that questions and challenges my ideas) so that I can develop my ideas further.

I plan to discuss:

• when to review code

• setting your reviewer up for success

• attitude towards code review

• some tips for reviewing code thoroughly

• making code review helpful

• code review as a conversation

• code review as a responsibility

• code review as a source of documentation

• why subpar code reviews happen

Thanks for reading! I hope you are as excited as I am for the coming discussions!