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Creating a Code Review Culture

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This talk explains how organizations can build a sustainable code review culture and improve the review process. It covers guidance for organizations, code authors, and reviewers, including communication context, pull request sizing, production readiness, testing, security, and language-specific design.

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Creating a Code Review Culture Johnathan Turner Squarespace
Code review is useful
Code review provides
A code review culture is useful
Organizations
Be intentional about your culture
Code authors
Make the reviewer's life easier by communicating context
Code reviewers
Sizing up • What is the general shape of the PR? • Is the PR the right size?
Production readiness • How will we know when this breaks? • Is there new documentation required by this change? • Are there tests that prevent regression? • Is this change secure?
Language specific • Is the code well designed? • Is the code idiomatic to the language? • Are new patterns introduced? • Does the code fall into common pitfalls for the language?
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