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An "Awesome" list of code review resources - articles, papers, tools, etc

Nov 15th - Nov 21st, 2021

Articles

Modern Code Reviews Arguably belongs in academic paper, but it's a website giving an overview of evidence on code review by facet/context. Links off to a bunch of papers.

Aug 30th - Sep 5th, 2021

Tools

Viezly Code review service with pull request visualization and enhanced navigation between changes.

Sep 21st - Sep 27th, 2020

Articles

A Better Code Review Decent set of patterns and anti-patterns for code reviews.

Mar 9th - Mar 15th, 2020

Articles

Feedback Ladders: How We Encode Code Reviews at Netlify Helpful framwork for reviewers to classify how actionable specific pieces of review feedback are.

Talks and Podcasts

Michaela Greiler on Code Reviews - SE Radio 2020 Michaela Greiler discusses the importance of code reviews and how to conduct them on the Software Engineering Radio podcast.

Oct 21st - Oct 27th, 2019

Tools

SonarCloud Detect code smells, bugs and vulnerabilities in Azure DevOps, Bitbucket and GitHub repositories.

Articles

Code Review Guidelines for Humans Some guidelines for giving and getting code reviews.

Sep 9th - Sep 15th, 2019

Articles

How to do a code review A thorough description of how Google engineers do code reviews, from the Google's Engineering Practices documentation.

Aug 26th - Sep 1st, 2019

Articles

On Code Review Short article about tooling and personal elements of code review, from an ex-Facebook engineer.

Aug 12th - Aug 18th, 2019

Academic Papers

Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews: An Empirical Study at Microsoft (Bosu, Greiler, Bird, 2015) This paper reports the findings of a large scale qualitative and quantitative study focusing on understanding which code review comments are considered useful by developers.

Code Reviewing in the Trenches: Understanding Challenges, Best Practices, and Tool Needs (MacLeod, Greiler, Storey, Bird, Czerwonka, 2018) A large scale study of over 900 Microsoft developers to understand their code review processes, their motivations to do code reviews, and which pitfalls and best practices they encounter.

Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google A study that shows how code reviews work at Google.

Articles

Code Reviews at Google are lightweight and fast Details on how code review best practices and processes work at Google.

How Code Reviews work at Microsoft A in-depth analysis on how the code review process looks like at Microsoft.

Jul 29th - Aug 4th, 2019

Articles

Comments During Code Reviews Writing good comments during code reviews.

Jul 15th - Jul 21st, 2019

Articles

Code Review: Create The Culture, Learn The Best Practices Code review tips and best practices from tech leaders.

May 27th - Jun 2nd, 2019

Tools

Gitpod Code review pull requests in a full IDE within your browser.

May 20th - May 26th, 2019

Tools

GitRise Slack Reminders for GitHub pull requests

Articles

A Zen Manifesto for Effective Code Reviews Practical tips for the submitter and the reviewer to make effective code reviews.

May 6th - May 12th, 2019

Tools

Softagram Automated code change visualization (and dependency analytics) for pull requests, merge requests (GitLab) and patch sets (Gerrit).

Jan 28th - Feb 3rd, 2019

Articles

Stacked Pull Requests: Keeping GitHub Diffs Small A step-by-step process to split big PRs and increase review engagement.

Oct 29th - Nov 4th, 2018

Academic Papers

Work Practices and Challenges in Pull-Based Development (Gousios et al. 2015) (summary on the morning paper) Field study of how GitHub pull requests are used in the wild.

Oct 22nd - Oct 28th, 2018

Books

Ultimate Guide to Code Reviews Codacy sponsored ebook of code review practices based on developer survey.

Articles

Code Review Etiquette A few tips helping with positive engagement on code review.

8 Tips for Great Code Reviews A few basic rules for a better code review process.

Tools

GitHub Git hosting and pioneer of the "Pull Request".

Sider Automated code review service for GitHub.

Oct 15th - Oct 21st, 2018

Academic Papers

An experiment to assess the cost-benefits of code inspections in large scale software development (Porter, Siy, Toman & Votta, 1997) Early paper that tested a range of then-current review techniques including multi-stage review and code-review-via-meeting that found you can get most of the benefit in an offline, single pass, with two reviewers.

Design and Code Inspections to Reduce Errors in Program Development (Fagan, 2002) Using a more formal process, particularly with defined roles for each participant and drive a big increase in error detection during review.

Articles

Towards Productive Technical Discussions Tactical questions and actions to push code review discussions into a more productive territory.

Books

Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review Older compilation of 10 essays on the practice of code reviews. Some repetition due to different authors covering the same territory.

Talks and Podcasts

Goldilocks and the Three Code Reviews - Vaidehi Joshi RedDot Ruby Conf 2017 Finding just the right amount of code review by focussing on what is affecting.

Tools

PullRequest Code review as a service for GitHub pull requests.

Reviewable Code review tool built on top of GitHub pull requests.

Oct 1st - Oct 7th, 2018

Articles

How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human Techniques that treat the code review as not only a technical process but a social one as well.

Academic Papers

Anywhere, anytime code inspections: using the Web to remove inspection bottlenecks in large-scale software development (Perpich, Perry, Porter, Votta & Wade, 1997) One day in the far future the best way to review code will be on the world wide web.

Aug 13th - Aug 19th, 2018

Tools

Pull Reminders Automated Slack reminders and metrics for GitHub pull requests.

Phabricator Open source git/mercurial/svn code review tool originating out of Facebook.

LGTM Automated Git code review for GitHub and Bitbucket pull requests for finding security vulnerabilities and code quality issues.

Rubberduck Browser extension to adds code-aware navigation to GitHub pull requests.

Articles

Building an Inclusive Code Review Culture Guidelines to help ensure a collaborative and learning culture

Code Review Review is the Manager's Job Why management should ensure code review is done and done well.

Jul 23rd - Jul 29th, 2018

Academic Papers

Helping Developers Help Themselves: Automatic Decomposition of Code Review Changes (Barnett et al. 2015) (summary on the morning paper) Research into automatically splitting big diffs into smaller diffs leading to better reviews.

Articles

Brian Guthrie's Feature Branching Rant Twitter thread on the pros and cons of GitHub's open source first model with regards to "in-company" code review practice.

Code Reviews: Just Do It Seminal post advocating for peer review of software back in 2006.

Designing Awesome Code Reviews Principles for actively designing a code review process.

Effective Code Reviews Without the Pain Another 2006 classic on how to effectively perform a code review.

How I review code More personal advice on how to best review a pull request from an engineer at Tumblr.

Pull Requests: How to Get and Give Good Feedback Advice for both sides of the code review process, the reviewer and the reviewee.

Ship Small Diffs Why it's better to review small changes rather than large ones.

The Art of Humanizing Pull Requests Emoji rich guide to the human side of code review via pull requests.

Unlearning Toxic Behaviors in a Code Review Culture A how-to guide for pull requests via how-not-too.

Why I changed the way I think about Code Quality Why code quality is about more than just the code.

Books

Handbook of Walkthroughs, Inspections, and Technical Reviews Older book covering more formal walkthroughs but covers politics and group dynamics in review well.

Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide A practical guide to formal code inspections as a code review practice.

Software Inspection: An Industry Best Practice Compendium of papers on code review practice.

What to Look for in a Code Review JetBrains sponsored ebook of how to spot coding anti-patterns during review.

Talks and Podcasts

Code Reviews: Honesty, Kindness, Inspiration: Pick Three - Jacob Stoebel RubyConf 2017 How to do effective code review while remaining kind to the original author.

Implementing a Strong Code-Review Culture - Derek Prior Railsconf 2015 How to instill a healthy code review culture in a team.

Jan 29th - Feb 4th, 2018

Tools

Upsource JetBrain's on-premise git/mercurial/perforce/svn code review tool.

Crucible Atlassian's on-premise code review tool.

Gerrit Open source git code review tool originating out of Google.

Review Board Open source review tool that is SCM/platform neutral.

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