Finished reading “Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review”
17 June, 2009 § 3 Comments
Today I just finished reading “Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review.” I’ll be giving a presentation on it tomorrow to the development staff at work, and I hope to have some notes published here soon about the book.
In short, the book is a free book from Smart Bear Inc. that focuses on the history and techniques of peer code review. Smart Bear are the makers of Code Collaborator, which is web-based code review software that is hosted internally within a company and helps facilitate code reviews.
I haven’t found a digital copy of the book, but there very well may exist one if you want to save a tree. There is also a PDF on their website on best practices for peer code review that you can take a look at.
JAWS 
Hi, thanks for mentioning our book!
There is not a .pdf of the complete book available, but some of the chapters are available here: http://smartbear.com/codecollab-code-review-book.php (scroll down to the bottom of the page).
Additional ideas about code review: http://smartbear.com/codecollab-white-paper.php
First and foremost, I wanted to say thank you to you and your company for putting together the Best Kept Secrets book. It was a great read and I enjoyed presenting it to my company.
To follow up with your comment, is there any reason why the whole book isn’t available online as a PDF? It seems to be a much more economical and environmental solution compared to mailing everyone a hard copy.
We send out the hard copy of the book because we want folks to have something they can carry around and show to their friends and co-workers.
Having said that, we do plan to investigate the idea of making the complete book available electronically for ebook readers, etc.