Code Reviews for Developers training course

Session 1: Introduction

Session 2: Code Reviews

• What is a Review?
• Why do a Review? What are the Benefits of Code Reviews?
• What barriers are there to Successful Reviews?

Session 3: Code Reviews: What is Involved?

• Who, When, What
• Roles in a Review
• When to Review
• What should be reviewed?
• Types of Review
• Pair Programming and Code Reviews

Session 4: Performing a Review

• Where to Start?
• Code Reading (Top Down / Bottom Up)
• Review Questions
• Code Smells / Refactoring
• Language Specific Code Smells
• Testing Checklist
• Performance checklist and Scalability
• Non Functional Requirements

Workshop: Performing a code Review

Session 5: Review Process

Requirements and Code Reviews

Non Functional Requirements

Scrum and Code Reviews

Version Control Systems and Reviews

Completing reviews

Session 6: 12 Good Practices of Code Reviews

1. Small reviews - Avoid large code change reviews
2. Short reviews (re time doing review)
3. Understand the requirements (functional and non-functional) before review
4. Normal part of working day
5. Review Structure
6. Use a CheckList
7. Foster positive behaviour around reviews
8. Establish Goals and Metrics Around Reviews
9. Authors annotate source code before reviews
10. Ego Effect – everyone is reviewed, everyone reviews
11. Ownership – developer and reviewer proud of code
12. Record / log review notes and conclusions, and verify issues fixed

Session 7: Code Review Tools

• Code Level Review Tools (Java, PAL, JavaScript, C#, XML)