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Review comment

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, review comment means: A note left during review to question, suggest, or explain a specific part of code, text, or a change.

In Turkish: inceleme yorumu

How it is used

Common in pull requests, document reviews, and design feedback. It may request changes, ask for clarification, or praise a good decision.

Example sentences

  1. Her review comment pointed out that the timeout value was hard-coded and should come from configuration.

    Here the term is a specific piece of feedback attached to one code issue, not a general opinion about the whole change.

  2. I replied to the review comment with benchmark results so the reviewer could see why the loop was rewritten.

    In this example, the term refers to a discussion point in the review that prompted justification and technical evidence.

Common collocations

  • leave a review comment
  • reply to a review comment
  • address a review comment
  • code reviewThe practice of teammates reading and commenting on each other's code changes before they are merged, to catch problems and share knowledge.
  • reviewerA teammate who reads and checks someone else's code changes, usually in a pull request, before they are allowed to be merged.

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