Code Review Cheat Sheet

Stop wasting time hunting through articles or wikis. This one-page PDF puts everything you need for rigorous, respectful, and fast code reviews right at your fingertips.

What You Get:

• Before You Begin: Scope PRs, gather context, and set expectations
• Core Review Areas: Correctness, readability, security, performance, tests, docs
• Review Conduct & Feedback: How to critique code and not the coder
• Approval Workflow: Clear sign-off steps and follow-up tasks

Why It Works:

• Minimal design maximizes readability at small sizes
• Process-driven—no fluff, just actionable prompts

Perfect For:

• Senior engineers standardising team reviews
• Junior devs learning best practices
• Freelancers & managers streamlining feedback