Code Review or Inspection is a standard practice of software engineering with an aim to find flaws or elements that can or should be improved. The process always focuses on identifying defects rather than making an attempt to fix them.

The software inspection process has changed a lot and will continue to change with the quick evolution of technologies. Earlier codes were circulated a few days in advance among the team members and a physical meeting was called in particular place and time. The meeting members consisted of author, other developers to assess code, a meeting chair person and a secretary to record the discussion and to prepare a report. Few days later, the author replies how the recommendation have been carried out. Read more »

Evolvability defect is a defect in the code that makes the code less compliant with standards, more error-prone, or more difficult to modify, extend or understand. The evolvability defects is further categorized into three groups: documentation, visual representation, and structure.

Documentation is information in the source code that communicates the intent of the code to humans (e.g., commenting and naming of software elements, such as variables, functions, and classes).

Visual representation refers to defects hindering program readability for the human eye. This subgroup contains problems mostly related to indentation and blank line usage. Read more »