Importance of Code Reviews

At first I thought Code Reviews are more about making the code more maintainable, user friendly and beautiful in terms of appearance. I was bit wrong :) Yes, of course it focus on those aspects as well, but the technical expertise you get is invaluable. The last couple of code reviews gave me insight to certain points which may seem very little but never to be neglected. The Java String comparison is one such thing that I learnt (I have given the details of this at Saliya's Blogs). There are many little things like this that are of great importance. The beauty of these little things is that they are hard to find. Eventually these will be things that stays in mind for a long time. So I personally enjoy the luxury of being able to attend to Code Reviews at WSO2.