CIS 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Code Review, Type Conversion, Floating Point

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 2250
• Professor: Stacey

Document Summary

Code reviews involve the reading of source code by a team of qualified people. It is one of the most powerful software practices. To find as many errors (or code or coding practices that might cause future errors) as possible. To improve that quality of the software this might include suggestions to the development team on best practices to adopt, code that should be refactored, tests that should be include in the test suite etc. To familiarize designers/programmers with standards this will help not just the reviewed but the reviewers as well when you do a review you will learn how to improve your own coding style and standards. Prove cross-pollination or ideas and techniques among the programming team. Prove essential training in using standards for coding. Programmers are forced to more clearly and completely document their code. Improves team confidence in the software being produced. Misunderstandings about the interface issues are caught earlier in the coding process.