Best way to conduct code reviews?

In most software development projects, code is stored in Git, and code reviews can be easily conducted in a lightweight fashion using GitHub pull requests.


With Appian there is no easy or intuitive way to do this. The only way to review code (that we have found) is to review the object in its totality. For expressions and interfaces you can manually comb through the Version history, pick out the prior definition, and run it through a text diff tool locally, but this is tedious, and doesn't allow collaboration as easily. For process models, it is impossible, which is another reason we try to make our models as small as possible and do everything in SAIL.

 

Has anyone built a tool for enabling efficient and collaborative code reviews, or is this just generally accepted as a limitation of the Appian product and an impediment to generating high quality code?

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  • I agree with most of the practitioners. We created checklist for various components (SAIL, Process Model, Rules/Constants etc) to take care if best practices, naming conventions, documentation practices etc being followed while designing. And we carry out code reviews use case by use case. Plus health checks per sprint is also a good practice to catch any abnormalities beforehand.