Code review is the process of having others review code that is written and accepting feedback and adapting the code to the feedback given. These days code review is seemingly at every IT department and widely ruled agreed upon as a best practice. It is often one of the largest sources of conflicts within a development team since giving and receiving criticism about work is often hard to do while remaining detached from the work itself. After several years of code review in several teams, I've noticed somethings that work and something that don't, as well as, things that are often touted about code review which I don't think are quite true by default. Here I'll try and share what I currently think about code review.
