--- title: Best Practices For Reviewing Code | daily.dev description: Discover the best practices for reviewing code to ensure high software quality. Learn about setting goals and standards, communicating expectations, defining a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-for-reviewing-code-yv28wny54 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Practices For Reviewing Code | daily.dev og:description: Discover the best practices for reviewing code to ensure high software quality. Learn about setting goals and standards, communicating expectations, defining a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-for-reviewing-code-yv28wny54 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yv28WNY54.png og:image:alt: Best Practices For Reviewing Code og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Best Practices For Reviewing Code **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 7 min read · 283 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary Discover the best practices for reviewing code to ensure high software quality. Learn about setting goals and standards, communicating expectations, defining a code review process, using a code review checklist, and fostering a positive code review culture. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@antoniovpires** · 3 upvotes > Cool tips! **@codectl** · 2 upvotes > Remember to provide positive reinforcement during code reviews when you encounter well-executed aspects. It's easy to fall into the trap of focusing solely on the areas for improvement. > > Side note - cool feature to have an audio version of the article. **@orcdev** · 2 upvotes > Great article! I'll just quickly share how we handled it in my company. > > We are usually using what you called `Ad-hoc` in your text, with exceptions if the merge request is too small. In that case reviewer can just check it out without anyone else. > > If it's something really big, in that case we are going together through the feature / bug fix or whatever it is. **@aritraghosh** · 1 upvotes > This was very insightful! **@preshdev** · 1 upvotes > thanks ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-for-reviewing-code-yv28wny54) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Best Practices For Reviewing Code","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-for-reviewing-code-yv28wny54","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-for-reviewing-code-yv28wny54"},"datePublished":"2024-03-13T12:10:30.684Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:47.883Z","description":"Discover the best practices for reviewing code to ensure high software quality. 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It’s easy to fall into the trap of focusing solely on the areas for improvement.\nSide note - cool feature to have an audio version of the article.","datePublished":"2024-04-03T17:26:36.507Z","dateModified":"2024-04-03T17:26:55.002Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/yv28WNY54#c-SwvmCEJe5","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"dillon","url":"https://daily.dev/codectl","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/26043866?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Great article! I’ll just quickly share how we handled it in my company.\nWe are usually using what you called Ad-hoc in your text, with exceptions if the merge request is too small. 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