Your Code Sucks and I Hate You: The Social Dynamics of Code Reviews [en]
Jonathan Lange, September 15th 2008
Abstract
Code review can be wonderful, helpful and incredibly daunting. This paper looks at how you can do code reviews for your project without provoking your fight-or-flight instincts.
We quickly gloss over why you should do code reviews in order to focus on the social dynamics of how code gets reviewed, particularly in open source projects. After all, part of what makes open source so great (and sometimes intimidating!) is that your code gets eyeballed by experts around the globe.
We look at the effects that different technologies can have on code review culture, what reviews can actually achieve, how other disciplines do review and then highlight some traps that are all too easy to fall in to.
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