How to Prepare Your Code for a Seamless Review

3 tips to make the process smooth

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Code review is one of the most crucial parts of software development, and it requires effort from both you and a reviewer. Code review typically involves three main steps:

• You make changes to a project on a separate branch.
• You work with a reviewer to improve them.
• Your work is merged into the main code base.

This process is necessary to keep projects well-maintained and properly functioning, and it can be a bit of a pain if you’re not prepared for it. This article will provide a few easy steps to get you ready for a review.

Review Your Own Code First

If you wouldn’t accept the code you’re submitting as a reviewer, don’t submit it. You should pretend you’re the reviewer, go over your code, and fix any flaws you come across before asking someone else to review your work.

If you would have something changed, be proactive and just change it. You should always be the first one to thoroughly review your code.

That self-review should involve fixing every possible issue you can find, and you should keep working until you feel your code will pass a review right away. Of course, you won’t catch…