Best way to code review my own single developer project?

Question

I have a medium small open source project that I am wanting to release, but first I would like to do a code review to check to make sure everything works and, most importantly, makes sense. I already (sorta) do the first part by having my own implementation of the project that I use heavily. But the second part is more tricky.

How can you check a project to see if it makes sense if you wrote it? Everything makes sense to you, but to others new SomeObject(new SomeEvent(new YetAnotherNestedObject() { public void someImplmentation { ... might not (that was only an example). I just can't think of a way to effectively say "This makes sense". I don't even think I could catch bugs that way.

Any suggestions?

(and should this be Community Wiki? Not sure)

Answer 1

Rubber duck debugging. Basically, try explaining it to someone else, even if that's an inanimate object.

Another good strategy is to sleep on it, or take a break from your code for a while. You may have more insights when you come back.

Answer 2

testing. Its not a code review, but it gives you maintainability and validation.

Is this something you have done before, or new stuff?

Do you have any friends who you can run it by?

Answer 3

You can't. The whole point of a code review is to get a second pair of eyes to examine the code. You should ask a friend to do a review.

Answer 4

If you mean you want to have the code reviewed before you open it for contributions, but don't mind others seeing the code, you could try your luck at the Review My Code Reddit. It's been a little passive lately, but might not hurt to try.