This tag is for questions about the practice of code review and code walkthroughs.

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Who is responsible for fixing failed SQL code reviews? [closed]

As a DBA, most SQL is submitted to my team for review. We do not have a SQL developer, so the code is frequently very, very inefficient. Our current process is: SQL is submitted for review right ...
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What to do when your colleagues don't value code maintainability [duplicate]

I've been working in the same software development department for a few years now. In that time, the average stay of a developer has been 6-9 months. A handful have been around for over 2 years, but ...
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What feedback is or is not appropriate for a code review? [duplicate]

I am interested in hearing some guidelines as to what feedback is or is not appropriate for a code review. My team has a very unstructured review process and I am trying to suggest some ways to ...
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Selection sort review. Does it look good? [migrated]

I always wanted to ask this but couldn't for some reason. I had written this chunk of code about 3 months ago when one of my teacher explained what selection sort was using flow chart. I had a basic ...
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Code review practice in medium team [closed]

I'm looking for a way to organize code review process. My inputs: 4-5 members in the team; SVN/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition. Solution criteria: Should support human review with ...
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Check Javascript coding practice and overall performance [closed]

I have a Edit/Details form which has 4 user related fields. On click of Save, I save the edited fields to local storage (if supported) and display the same values in the Details view. Below is the ...
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How to associate a new/modified changeset with an existing review in VisualStudio 2012

I'm trying out the new Code Review tool in Visual Studio 2012. Which seems okay for the most part, but I've hit a wall in regards to when changes are required. How should this be handled in a code ...
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How to count condition coverage

I am wondering, What would be the correct condition coverage test cases for the following condition: if(A && E && (B || C || D)) Considering short circuiting, what cases would I ...
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code review with git-flow and github

With regular git and github I can do a code review by simply creating a pull request of the feature branch I'm working on to the master branch. How would I do code reviews with git-flow? With workflow ...
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Should Junior Programmers be involved as code reviewers in the projects of Senior Programmers?

One of my team members (a junior programmer) has good programming skills. I believe at Code reviews (with an emphasis on learning, not pointing out mistakes). Should junior programmers be involved as ...
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Programming task to test for focus on maintainability [closed]

I am looking for a programming task, which shows whether the coder has maintainability in mind while programming. I imagine giving a task to fix a bug in a method. It should be clear to the programmer ...
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What would Business Intelligence (BI) developers look for in code reviews?

Let me preface this with saying I am not a Business Intelligence (BI) developer. I'm a .NET developer, and I have only a vague notion of what BI is, and encompasses. I've been an evangelist for a ...
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How do you deal with discovering bad and false code in your team? [duplicate]

Every year in january we process a big task with our system. While the performance during the task was above average the maintaince follow up is currently having a lot of trouble with jobs running too ...
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How important is it to reduce the number of lines in code?

I am a Software developer who works on J2SE (core java). Often during our code reviews we are asked to reduce the number of lines in our code. It's not about removing redundant code, it's about ...
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Branches/decision count in an example

Having read SO, just found this question: if (x > y) print (x) else if (x < y) print (y) else print (x,y) How many branches and decisions are there? It mentiones there should ...

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