code review

See also: Codereview

English

Noun

code review (countable and uncountable, plural code reviews)

1. (software engineering) The practice, or an instance, of identifying and verifying the choice of algorithms, coding styles and compliance with the software design.

   After several painful episodes, we've decided to adopt code review for all major changes.

   How did that get through two separate code reviews?

   • 2008, Anthony J. Lattanze, Architecting Software Intensive Systems: A Practitioners Guide, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 355:

     For small projects, code reviews can be used to ensure that software implementations adhere to the detailed designs.

Translations

practice of verifying software changes

• German: Codereview m, Review (de) m

Verb

code review (third-person singular simple present code reviews, present participle code reviewing, simple past and past participle code reviewed)

1. (transitive, software engineering) To perform code review on.

   Synonym: (more idiomatic) review

   Did anyone code review that class before it went into the shipping version?

   • 2021, Billy Yuen, Alexander Matyushentsev, Todd Ekenstam, Jesse Suen, GitOps and Kubernetes […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 11:

     These changes are code-reviewed by other team members and merged to the main branch upon approval.

Further reading

• code review on Wikipedia.Wikipedia