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Is code reviewing good practice?

When the company I work in hired new managers, they offered us to overview someone’s code on every meeting. We have meetings every two weeks, so each time one of developers was to show his/her code on the projector, and others were going to discuss it.

Is there something wrong with how we’re doing version control?

I work with a team of programmers as the business analyst. We just released version 2.0 of our product and are working on the next version to be released in 3 months (it’s an internal software product). Unfortunately version 2.0 has some issues that they have had to fix and we’re going to deploy those fixes in a couple weeks. The problem is that we also don’t want to deploy the changes that are still being worked on and are not slated to be released for another 3 months.

How should I test my TEST code?

One of the few things that most software developers agree on is that
you shouldn’t rely on code to work correctly unless you test it. If
you don’t test it, it may have hidden bugs that are only going to
cause you more work down the road.

How often should we launch SONAR analysis?

I successfully installed Jenkins and then Sonar to go with continuous integration. The firsts reports are not that good in term of rules violations ,comments, code duplication …

Methods for testing a very large application

I have a PHP app which is very large. There are usually 2-3 developers working on it full time and we are getting to the point where we are making changes and creating bugs (cough features!). The software isn’t complex per say, just there is a lot going on (35~ controllers, about the same models, etc).

how do I know I’ve split my program into too small pieces?

Ever since entering the world of programming, I’ve been bombed with tips like “file should be only x lines”, which is fair since new programmers tend to stuff everything into one file. But, having done programming professionally for more than a year now, I’ve mostly found myself getting hindered by the small size of the files, rather than than the large size of them. One of the biggest hindrances I have, is having to shuffle between 10-20 different files when investigating how something works, when some of those files contain only a couple of lines.