Often integrated in ITS tools nowadays, code reviews facilitate team cooperation by encouraging the critical analysis of the changes proposed to the code base, it can be useful to detect potential issues before the proposed changes make it to the master branch. Depending on the project requirements, code reviews may be recommended, or even enforced to the team, with the purpose of increasing the quality of the code and early detection of defects by human inspection.
When properly integrated with the VCS, it is possible to set a threshold of mandatory positive reviews from other members in the team before the commit is actually considered for merging. It is possible to mandate the reviews of each single commit in the master branch, ...
