alt Hacker NewsJust like a manager, you don't need to look at the code. You need to set up quality systems to provide evidence the code does what it is supposed to do, just like a manager.
Just like a manager, you don't need to look at the code. You need to set up quality systems to provide evidence the code does what it is supposed to do, just like a manager.
Code review has a number of important purposes beyond merely verifying functionality. It's true that some managers don't recognize this, fail to allocate time for anything but feature work, and then wonder a few years later why the software is so buggy and new feature development is so hard.