Point the reviewer to the core of the code change. Where should they start reading? What should
they focus on (e.g. security, performance, maintainability, user-friendliness, compliance with the
specs, finding more corner cases, concrete questions)?
Test Environment
How to set up a test environment for manual testing?
Check List for the Author
Please, prepare your MR for a review. Be sure to write a summary and a focus and create gitlab
comments for the reviewer. They should guide the reviewer through the changes, explain your changes
and also point out open questions. For further good practices have a look at our review
guidelines
All automated tests pass
Reference related issues
Up-to-date CHANGELOG.md (or not necessary)
Appropriate user and developer documentation (or not necessary)
How do I use the software? Assume "stupid" users.
How do I develop or debug the software? Assume novice developers.
Annotations in code (Gitlab comments)
Intent of new code
Problems with old code
Why this implementation?
Check List for the Reviewer
I understand the intent of this MR
All automated tests pass
Up-to-date CHANGELOG.md (or not necessary)
Appropriate user and developer documentation (or not necessary)
The test environment setup works and the intended behavior is reproducible in the test
environment
In-code documentation and comments are up-to-date.
Check: Are there specifications? Are they satisfied?
