I’ve been trying to incorporate refactoring into our code reviews. The idea is to use refactoring as a way to understand code while reviewing it. I picked up this idea from the book “Refactoring” by Martin Fowler. Here’s a blog post of my experience with this technique.

http://tech.lovewithfood.com/blog/2014/09/04/refactoring-in-code-review-my-experience