AJM Softwares · Technical note
Establish the intended behaviour
Map the important user journeys, routes, APIs, data stores, integrations, and release environment. Confirm what the application is supposed to do and what is unfinished before treating generated code as safe to change or ship.
Install and run the project from a clean checkout. This reveals missing setup steps and gives reviewers a working baseline to compare with the requirements, rather than relying on the code generator’s description of the result.
Review the implementation and its dependencies
Read generated changes in the context of the surrounding code. Look for duplicated business rules, unnecessary abstractions, unclear module boundaries, missing error handling, and assumptions that do not match the product. Verify unfamiliar APIs and configuration against the library’s official documentation.
Check each new dependency exists, is maintained, is compatible with the project, and is needed. Generated explanations, comments, and package names can sound plausible while being incorrect, so verify them independently before accepting the change.
Test requirements, including failure cases
Write or review tests from the expected product behaviour, not only from the generated implementation. Cover the main user flows, invalid inputs, permission boundaries, duplicate requests, and relevant dependency failures. Generated tests are useful suggestions, but they may repeat the same mistaken assumptions as the code.
Run the project’s tests, static checks, type checks, and production build. For sensitive data access and authentication, use a dedicated security review; for capacity needs, define a workload and test the full request path. A passing build proves the code can be built, not that it is secure, scalable, or reliable in production.
Release with clear ownership
Deploy to a staging environment and exercise the critical journeys there. Confirm that production configuration and secrets are managed outside the source code, useful failures can be diagnosed, and someone is responsible for updates and support. Record unresolved limitations and address critical security or data-loss risks before release.