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Oct 22 |
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Are code reviews necessary for junior developers? juniors also learn much faster reviewing a senior's code--it lets the senior lead-by-example without having to explicitly tow the junior along. It can be fun to ask a junior to review code and ask them, as homework, to come up with an alternative solution to compare and contrast. I'd rather have a junior follow precedence than re-invent a wheel (which usually comes out oblong) |
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Oct 22 |
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Are code reviews necessary for junior developers? @Gratzy -- simply because we're not perfect. Our team has grown significantly, and we have some turnover (mostly contractors). In the past when we back off on the review policy problems creep back in nearly immediately. The review process is simply a critical step in maintaining an effective team and producing a quality product. Reviewing all code isn't difficult; especially if you have a couple senior devs who are very good at finding uneeded code. Most duplicate code originates from developers who do well, but just aren't aware of an existing approach. |
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Oct 22 |
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Are code reviews necessary for junior developers? @tia -- I understand the need to rush, but our early-investment has always made a positive ROI. Inevitably not doing an early code-review lets issues through that delay our ship-dates and result in other features being cut to address the features we thought were done. |
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Oct 22 |
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Are code reviews necessary for junior developers? @Gratzy -- I absolutely swear by it; normally it adds ~%10 to the dev-cycle; a small investment for how much we catch early on. |
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Oct 22 |
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Oct 22 |
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Are code reviews necessary for junior developers? I couldn't disagree more. Every line of code should go through at least 2x reviews... the original developer should review absolutely every line-change prior to commiting them, and at least one other developer should perform a peer-review as follow-up. Very rarely does code make it through a review without at least 1 good question being raised; peer reviews also increase awareness between team-members of what--and how--others are completing their assignments. |
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Oct 21 |
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Hard-copy approaches to time tracking It's off to a good start, but one shortcoming is that I still have to track my start/end times to tally them in the checkboxes. I'll be continuing with it to see if I improve--but I've already caught myself starting a few tasks and forgetting when I started them |
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Oct 21 |
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How do you keep focused through long compiles @Jonn if you buy into Spolsky's take on Evidence Based estimates then they are part of your time-on-task :) |
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Oct 21 |
awarded | Editor |
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Oct 21 |
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Maintainability of Boolean logic - Is nesting if statements needed? added 346 characters in body |
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Oct 21 |
answered | Maintainability of Boolean logic - Is nesting if statements needed? |
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Oct 21 |
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Maintainability of Boolean logic - Is nesting if statements needed? just curious, what language are you working with? |
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Oct 21 |
answered | Who does test-driven development? |
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Oct 21 |
answered | How do you keep focused through long compiles |
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Oct 20 |
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Good intellisense extension for Visual Studio? examples of the Eclipse features you're referring to would be helpful. |
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Oct 20 |
answered | Good intellisense extension for Visual Studio? |
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Oct 20 |
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What should a tester (Quality Assurance) person do on a scrum team? A good position to place them! It keeps them up-to-date on what's happening, and they can be involved in as many side-conversations as needed to ensure they're aware of the details as they evolve. |
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Oct 20 |
answered | What should a tester (Quality Assurance) person do on a scrum team? |
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Oct 20 |
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Hard-copy approaches to time tracking retagged |
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Oct 20 |
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What was the worst experience you've had with a customer/user? Dilbert is life :( |
