How can you ensure a collaborative and constructive code review process?

Setting the expectations right to the team solves half of your problem. Make a clear picture of what needs to be done, like what is the coding standards, readability which needs to be adapted in Test Automation. Set the timelines clear, guide the team regularly and provide the proper feedback and follow up with them regularly.

✨ Discuss with the team on what needs to be achieved with timelines ✨ Setup a standard and quality standards in confluence page about label convention etc ✨ Before raising any PR requests ask them to run static code analysis tool like sonarqube ✨ Regular review on every week and periodic feedback will help to achieve the quality standards

For automation testing, ensure that all your code is stored in a version control system like GitHub or a similar tool. When automating a new feature, establish a new branch with the ticket number and write the code within that specific branch. Avoid keeping any code solely on your local system. Begin each day by synchronizing with the latest code to prevent conflicts and stay up-to-date with code commits. When submitting a Pull Request to merge your code into the main branch, please conduct a thorough code review and maintain all comments within the PR for easy tracking and referencing. Additionally, ensure that the status is updated accurately.

When reviewing code, ensure that any coding standards for the product are adhered to, but try to avoid flagging up issues which are personal taste if those aren't part of your standards. Often this can avoid adoption of new practices (e.g. defensive coding techniques) which would be beneficial, purely because you've always coded in a different way, so treating such differences as a learning opportunity when reviewing is a good mindset to get into.

When giving feedback, point out what was done well, what was missed, and explain why these are important. This helps them learn how to improve in the future. Avoid making personal comments about their mistakes. When asking for feedback, listen openly, don't try to justify yourself, and be willing to admit your own errors. Look for ways to do better.

Ideally your development process will enforce that code review is a continuous process - so issues highlighted in the initial submission will have to be resolved by resubmitting the code for review, explaining how issues were addressed, and then it should not be possible to push the code to the next stage until this resubmitted review has been approved.

Employing my expertise, We should make a list of frequent problems to check for when conducting the evaluation. This guarantees constant evaluation of crucial elements like as security, performance, and functionality. Moreover, evaluate and enhance your code review procedure on a regular basis. To find areas for improvement and ongoing development, get input from the team. Give comments on problems that significantly affect the functionality or quality of the code priority. Review smaller, incremental code segments if at all possible.

Make sure you have enough time to do a thorough job when reviewing code - otherwise the quality of the review will suffer, and I've even seen occasions when a time-pressed reviewer asked for A to be changed to B in their first review, and in a later review asked for B to be changed to A. This sort of behaviour tends to give the review process a bad name, and make people seek out other reviewers, so make sure you have enough time to perform a proper code review rather than trying to squeeze it in between other tasks.