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What methods and criteria do you use when checking the quality of other developers' code?

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Answer from AI

When reviewing the quality of other developers' code, I pay attention to the following aspects:

  • Readability and clarity of the code: the code should be easily readable, with understandable variable and method names.
  • Compliance with code style: adherence to the standards of code formatting accepted in the project or company.
  • Logic and architecture: ensuring that the code correctly implements the task and does not contain redundancies.
  • Error handling: proper and predictable management of exceptions.
  • Testability: presence of unit tests and the ability to easily cover the code with tests.
  • Optimality and performance: avoiding unjustified resource costs.

Methods of review:

  • Code Review: systematic review of code with comments and recommendations.
  • Static analysis: using tools (e.g., Lint, SonarQube) for automatic checking.
  • Running tests: ensuring all tests pass successfully.

Example of a comment in code review:

// It is better to use 'when' instead of 'if-else' to improve readability
when (status) {
    Status.SUCCESS -> handleSuccess()
    Status.FAILURE -> handleFailure()
    else -> handleUnknown()
}