What to Look for in a Code Review
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What to Look for in a Code Review

Effective tips for reviewing code

About the Book

A series of tips on what to look for when doing code reviews, including aspects of testing, security, performance and more. The book is a compilation of blog posts on the same topic available on the Upsource blog

About the Author

Trisha Gee
Trisha Gee

Trisha is a software engineer, Java Champion and author. Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries of all sizes, including finance, manufacturing and non-profit, and she lead the Java Advocacy Team at JetBrains. She has expertise in Java high-performance systems and dabbles with Open Source development.

Trisha’s exceptionally passionate about sharing things that help real developers. That might be: getting them up to speed on the latest version of Java; teaching them tips and tricks to save time with IntelliJ IDEA; or promoting healthy technical communities across the globe. Trisha values helping all developers level up their career and skills at every step of their journey.

Read more from Trisha in the books “Head First Java”, “97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know” and “What to Look for in a Code Review”.

Table of Contents

  • JetBrains Technical Series
    • About this book
  • About the author
  • Introduction
    • What do you look for when reviewing someone else’s code?
    • What should you look for
  • Tests
    • Ask yourself these questions
    • Reviewers can write tests too
    • Summary
  • Performance
    • Performance Requirements
    • Calls outside of the service/application are expensive
    • Using resources efficiently and effectively
    • Warning signs a reviewer can easily spot
    • Correctness
    • Code-level optimisations
    • Summary
  • Data Structures
    • Lists
    • Maps
    • Sets
    • Stacks
    • Queues
    • Why select the right data structure?
    • Summary
  • SOLID Principles
    • What is SOLID?
    • Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
    • Open-Closed Principle (OCP)
    • Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
    • Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)
    • Mino Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
    • Summary
  • Security
    • Automation is your friend
    • Sometimes “It Depends”
    • Understand your Dependencies
    • Summary
  • Upsource Quick Wins
    • Navigation
    • Inspections
    • Exception Handling Issues
    • Probable Bugs
    • Code can be simplified
    • Unused Code
    • Summary

About the Publisher

This book is published on Leanpub by JetBrains

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