✅ Stack-Specific Review Checklists and Release Criteria

Intro: A good secure-engineering guide changes pull requests and release reviews. This page turns the stack guidance into short checklists teams can actually use.

What this page includes

review checklists by stack family

release criteria that catch structural mistakes

how to scale review quality without slowing everything down

what to automate first

Backend service checklist

request validation present and explicit;
authN and authZ paths separated clearly;
object-level authorization verified;
secrets loaded from approved mechanisms only;
debug and admin routes reviewed;
high-risk actions logged with actor and object context.

Frontend checklist

cookies and session posture validated;
no secrets in build artifacts;
API origins and CORS aligned with production intent;
third-party scripts inventoried;
upload and download flows reviewed.

CI-friendly release criteria

Automate first:

secret scanning;
dependency and container scanning;
config linting;
infrastructure policy checks;
artifact provenance where maturity allows.

Reserve human review for:

tenant isolation decisions;
admin-plane changes;
high-risk data flows;
new federation or third-party trust paths.

Author attribution: Ivan Piskunov, 2026 - Educational and defensive-engineering use.