Effective code reviews in agile teams
Abstract
This session describes a lightweight approach to code reviews in agile geographically distributed teams. It covers lessons learned from several agile projects, both best practices to follow and pitfalls to avoid. Special focus is set on integrating code review process with daily work of developers and tools they use. The presentation shows how to make a code review painless, effective and liked by the team. Moreover it presents some aspects of code reviews growing beyond their original intention.
The session includes a demo of how we at Atlassian carry out code reviews using web-based system - Atlassian Crucible and Open Source plugin for IntelliJ IDEA - Atlassian IntelliJ Connector.
Speaker
Wojciech Seliga is an experienced software developer with long experience in traditional and agile methodologies. He has been with Java for about 10 years. He worked for huge corporations (Lufthansa, Intel) and smaller companies (Atlassian). Although he holds CMMI, RUP and ISO certificates, he is strong advocate of lightweight agile approach to software development.
Currently he actively develops open source project Atlassian IntelliJ Connector, whose one of the goals it to bring effective code reviews to Java developers. He also runs agile and Java consulting business in the company he co-founded - SPARTEZ.
