From the course: Programming Foundations: Conducting Code Reviews
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Scope of a code change
From the course: Programming Foundations: Conducting Code Reviews
Scope of a code change
- [Instructor] Before implementing a code change and submitting it for approval, it's important the team agrees on the size and scope of the code change. The scope defines how much work is required and how much of the code base will be changed as a part of a given effort. Usually, individual chunks of work are groomed and refined in a meeting with the developers and sometimes others such as managers or product owners. These chunks of work are called user stories. And in this sense, they talk about the desired functionality of the application, which requires certain modifications to the code base or tech stack. Anyone on the team can come up with a user story for something to be done but user stories often come from the product group for new features to add to the product. Sometimes these user stories can be more engineering-focused and be about cleaning up the code base instead of modifying functionality that the customer sees. In this refinement meeting, the developers usually have a…
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