Code Reviews

Today we did code reviews on two projects codenamed "Louie" and "CD". These projects will be released in a few months but the code reviews were a big success. Code reviews are a critical part of the development process for the following reasons:

1. Everyone that participates learns something they didn't know before the review.
2. Future code is made better because we learn from our current mistakes.
3. Current code that has issues gets fixed immediately.
4. Developers work hard before a review to make sure code is commented and standards are followed.
5. Bugs are identified before the product goes to testing, saving time in the long term.

My favorite part of the review today was when Wenjie and Mike stood at the whiteboard writing out pseudo code and arguing whether each other's algorithm would work. You wouldn't know it by looking at them but these two guys are pretty strong-willed when it comes to code. I enjoyed watching them trying to explain their logic to each other, you could really see two great minds at work, it was quite the site to see and I can't wait for Wenjie to get his shot at Mike's code at our next review. :)