Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches

Code Review Guidelines

Code review is especially important for all new scripts and nontrivial enhancements before the code is launched. The goals of the code review are to ensure that the overall system is designed in a scalable, sensible way and also to ensure that the code itself is well structured and well written. Each of the technical review items should show up in the project plan or checklist.

A programming style guide should be used. This can often be obtained from the company or organization that supports the programming language (for example, Sun Microsystems provides a style guide for the Java programming language). A style guide explains conventions for writing code in a clear, readable manner.

The code review should be initiated ...