Why software developers should do code reviews?

As we all know, reviewing code takes a lot of time and is pretty expensive based on the amount of time it requires and consumes. It appears that everybody in  a tech company starting from your manager are eager to get the software project finished and thrown over to the software testing department.

Here are five reasons why code reviews should be a must -

• First and foremost is it encourages team bonding.
• It brings in discipline and sense of consistency and quality across the project.
• Improve a coders own programming skills.
• Coders know that there code will be evaluated so they keep the code detailed oriented by leaving proper comments.
• Its an opportunity for mentoring and enhancing coding skills of team members as a whole.

So next time your manager rush your project without a code review, just say plain NO.

"Success stories happen very often when performing code reviews," says Dave Katauskas, senior architect at Geneca. "But the best success story is the pattern that develops once a team has gelled. The longer you’re into a project, the better quality code is created. This is all due to the code review process and governance that occurred up stream in the beginning of the project."