http://www.stellman-greene.com/2008/09/20/how-to-hold-a-more-effective-code-review/ because people want their software to work Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:40:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.stellman-greene.com/2008/09/20/how-to-hold-a-more-effective-code-review/comment-page-1/#comment-2197 Building Better Software › Building a great programming career Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:02:34 +0000 http://www.stellman-greene.com/?p=158#comment-2197 [...] Even if you just volunteer as a tester, or try your hand at fixing a few bugs, you’ll learn a lot about how people work together on software teams. In fact, you can learn a lot just by lurking in the forums and learning how the project is set up. What kind of version control system does it use? Can you figure out how to check out the code and get it to compile? Do they use a continuous integration system like CruiseControl to automatically do periodic builds? How do the team members review each others’ code? [...] [...] Even if you just volunteer as a tester, or try your hand at fixing a few bugs, you’ll learn a lot about how people work together on software teams. In fact, you can learn a lot just by lurking in the forums and learning how the project is set up. What kind of version control system does it use? Can you figure out how to check out the code and get it to compile? Do they use a continuous integration system like CruiseControl to automatically do periodic builds? How do the team members review each others’ code? [...]

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