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(Almost) Painless Code Reviews
By Frederic Boulanger, Macadamian Technologies Inc
  
Summary: Peer code review is universally acknowledged as a valuable practice that often catches 60 percent to 90 percent of the bugs in code. So why would most developers rather be poked in the eye with a sharp stick than attend a Fagan style inspection meeting? Take a cue from the crowd working on Wine (www.winehq.com), an open source implementation of the Windows API. The Wine team has evolved code review practices to avoid the chaos and poor communication that can result from a team of part-time developers distributed across the globe. Frederic Boulanger explains how to adapt the Wine code review system to the needs of a commercial software development team. The "single committer" review method improves code quality, helps keep errors out of source control, and quickly integrates new developers into your team. |
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About the Author Frédéric Boulanger is president and co-founder of Macadamian, a product development outsourcing firm that helps Nortel, Cognos, Adobe, and Corel, among others, develop new products faster. Frédéric is chair of the software certification initiative launched by the Ottawa Software Cluster, and is co-founder and co-executive of the Ottawa Software Executive Forum, an Ottawa-based networking group that brings high-level software executives together to share best practices, exchange ideas, and explore new technologies. Prior to founding Macadamian, Frédéric was the development manager of Paradox, Corel Corporation's flagship database product. There, he managed the first release of Paradox after Corel acquired the relational database management system from Borland. Frédéric holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Université de Sherbrooke, Québec.
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