Start your team reviewing your programming work. Become a better programmer!

1. 15 Minute
Code Review
Quickstart
brian d foy, brian.d.foy@gmail.com
The Perl Review

2. Make
better programmers
not
better programs

3. Choose a reason
• Inspect work
• Mentor junior members
• Sharpen senior members
• Cross-pollinate ideas
• Find bugs

4. Start small
• Start with small goals
• Make it a regular, expected event
• Reach a goal? Extend it.
• Refine and document the process

5. Set boundaries
• Be nice
• Limit the scope and depth of code
• Limit the time for each item
• Don’t ambush
• Don’t make corrections
• End on time

6. Review code that...
• compiles
• passes its tests
• is covered by the tests
• is profiled
• is under development

7. Stay on target
• Make a checklist
• Show up prepared
• Facilitate discussion but defer arguments
• Quash digressions (send to hallway track)
• Note problems and move on

8. Starter checklist
• Is documented
• Everyone understands
• what it does
• how it does it
• why it does it that way
• Follows local style

9. Steal from others
• Effective Code Reviews Without the Pain
http://goo.gl/8bWO
• Five Whys
http://5whys.com/