suggest it. It can only help. If you're a solo developer, find a kindred spirit to review code with -- go online, socialize, expand your development circles, team up. Don't look at other developers as competition and at code review as your enemy, look at others like brothers in arms with code review as your weapon on the front lines to perfection. Bruno is a professional web developer from Croatia with Master's degrees in Computer Science and English Language and Literature. He works as a lead publishing process developer for an online publisher, and moonlights as a hyperweb enthusiast experimenting with up and coming web technologies. He also authored the Mindworks PHP Wireframework (accessible soon via Mindworks.co ). Find him on his Bitfalls blog , or via Geekli.st 15 Responses to "The Importance of Code Review" Rabih Younes September 3, 2012 at 6:17 am Hey, recently got a chance to try out the trial version od Review Assistant http://www.devart.com/review-assistant/ , new code review tool, now thinking of upgrading to the Pro edition, but still doubting, may be i should opt for Crucible? Review Assistant performs really well and it a pleasure to use. Have you heard of it? In my experience, "old timers" are more apt to do code reviews :) One huge and mostly overlooked benefit of the formal review, where all developers gather, is not in the quality of the code under review, but in the knowledge sharing as more experienced people point out better ways of doing