Reading and Reviewing Code

One of the most important skills in open-source development is learning to read code written by others. This presentation will discuss techniques for reading and reviewing code written by others. It includes understanding design goals, using version control history and bug databases to gain additional code insight, and goals and limitations of code review processes.

Benjamin Smedberg, Platform Developer, Mozilla Corporation Benjamin Smedberg is platform developer for the Mozilla Corporation, and is module owner for Mozilla's application toolkit and build system.