What is the purpose of a code review?

Why Code Review?

Code review (often known as peer review) is systematic examination of source code written in programming language by a software developer. Code review dramatically helps in the quality of products. In this article I will explain about what are the importance of source code review :-

Code Review Process

• Finding Bugs Early: when they are cheap to fix.

• Coding Standards Compliance: Code review helps to maintain consistent coding style across the company.

• Teaching and Sharing Knowledge: During review team members gain better understanding of the code base and learn from each other.

• Consistent Design and Implementation: Peer review helps to maintain a level of consistency in software design and implementation.

• Higher Software Security: Applications that require a high level of security benefit from targeted security reviews.

• Team Cohesion: Review discussions save team members from isolation and bring them closer to each other.

• Confidence of Stakeholders: You build confidence of stakeholders about the technical quality of the execution.

• Improve Manage Code Performance: It leads better code practices, removing unnecessary code, and improving readability.

• Improve Quality: when they are cheap to fix

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