Posts Tagged ‘code review’

  

Strategies for Effective Code Reviews

Posted by Basil Vandegriend on September 16th, 2007. Categories: Coding Tags: , , ,

Code reviews are an important practice for improving the quality of your software and ensuring that it is ready for release. Software engineering research has found that reviews (or inspections) are a powerful QA practice and have many advantages over testing:

A higher percentage of defects are found when using reviews – as high as […]

Why You Should Polish Your Code

Posted by Basil Vandegriend on June 25th, 2007. Categories: Coding Tags: , , ,

When are you done writing a piece of code? Is it when you have implemented the necessary functionality? When you have tested it? I believe there is more to professional-quality code than just getting it to function properly. What else is there? Making sure the code is maintainable - well designed and understandable. I use […]