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"Looks Good to Me"
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"Looks Good to Me"

by Adrienne Braganza
December 2024
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
11h 1m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from "Looks Good to Me"

7 How code reviews can suck

This chapter covers

  • Common pain points that can pop up in a code review
  • Some real developer stories of code reviews gone wrong

Imagine being on a team of five. You’re working on a relatively straightforward, monolithic application. Unfortunately, everyone is pushing their code to the main branch whenever they complete an assigned feature (or worse, whenever they want). You’re stepping on each other’s code, introducing varied naming conventions, overwriting and probably duplicating code, and much worse. It’s the wild, wild West, and it’s what having no code review process can feel like.

If you’ve worked on a team that did not have a code review process in place (or some quality checks as part of a CI/CD pipeline), ...

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