Making Code Reviews Easier

Why you might want to keep using them — with some changes

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One of my posts on secure code and application security.

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Code reviews may cause people to quit. I did.

Code reviews are painful. I get it. At one company where I worked I hated the code reviews — but not because of the code review itself. I hated the fact that we could not take appropriate steps to speed them up. Also the person doing the code reviews was not reasonable in and kind of mean.

It reminds me of that saying — “Hate the player, not the game.” :-D

Except I said it backwards. Hate is a strong word but here’s an example of why I had some disdain for this person. He seemed to antagonize me more than other people. Perhaps because I wasn’t afraid of him, busted through his fast-talking logic when others couldn’t, and got around his blocking issues more than once.

One time he caused all the technical managers to come to a meeting to argue against a certain approach. I knew he was going to say the approach wouldn’t work. I worked on a back office team. I went to…