Usually we have builds against the master branch. It is good but now and then builds fail and we have to fix the code. Better way would be to find errors before that. Pull request builds help with that. That way the build pipeline will be one of the "reviewer" in the pull request and doesn't pass the pull request if the build fails. In this blog post I will demontstrate how this can be done in Azure DevOps with Azure Repos.
Category: Code Review
Let Someone Walkthrough Your Unfinished Code
"Make it a practice to present and discuss each implementation at one-third completion", wrote Adam Tornhill in his excellent Software Desing X-Rays book. Since reading that book I've been thinking about it, and I wrote why I strongly agree with it. Practically it improves code quality (which I value really high).
Code Review Best Practices For Reviewers (Code Review 3/3)
This is the third and last part of my code review related blog post series. Reviewing code is an important task where you can give feedback to the programmer. If you do it right, the programmer can learn something and code quality will be better. In this blog post I wrote how you can review the code better and more effectively.
Code Review Best Practices For Authors (Code Review 2/3)
In the previous blog post, I wrote about why you should do code reviews. This time I wrote about how code reviews should be created. Code review's author has an important part to make review successful. With these best practices review of your code will be better.
Why You Should Do Code Reviews? (Code Review 1/3)
Code reviews are something I really value high. In my opinion, every software development team should do code reviews. In brief, the reason is learning and sharing knowledge and code quality. In this blog post, I will explain why.