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Where have all the reviewers gone?

Where have all the reviewers gone?

Posted Sep 14, 2006 8:41 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Where have all the reviewers gone? by eskild
Parent article: Where have all the reviewers gone?

in the commercial world, things are often no better

In my experience there is peer review in the commercial world, altough not as much as it should be. In the previous two projects I've worked the version control system was set up so every modification to the code was sent via e-mail to the interested parties (e.g. senior developers), who had the oppurtunity to check it. Also the project management pressured the developers to hold formal code reviews for new functionality.

Bye,NAR


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Proprietary side of the coin

Posted Sep 14, 2006 12:43 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

I remember my dear friend Zoon did that in our company, so he and I would see what our less experienced colleagues were checking in.

The problem was then to make them understand why a particular change was bad, and should be corrected, and with time pressure on the project, even the managers were just biting the bullet in the end, and the crap stayed there accumulating.

Mind you, we both left the company quickly after that!

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