10+ Best Articles on Code Reviews
The most useful articles on code reviews from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Code Reviews Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on code reviews by Refind users in 2023 so far.
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How to Make Good Code Reviews Better
I have been doing day-to-day code reviews for over a decade now. The benefits of code reviews are plenty: someone spot checks your work for errors, they get to learn from your solution, and the…
How to be good at Code Reviews
In my time as a developer, I have given hundreds of code reviews. It's something I learned to enjoy v...
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One)
Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these articles focus on finding bugs to the exclusion of almost every other component of a review. Communicating issues you discover in a constructive and professional way? Irrelevant! Just identify all the bugs, and the rest will take care of itself.
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part Two)
The worst code review of my life and how you can avoid a similar fate.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on code reviews—all under 10 minutes.
The Code Review Pyramid
When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style, whereas important aspects (does the…
I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry
Once upon a time there was a guy on my team so weak that he was going to be fired (a developer! Fired!). Every comment of mine was another nail in his coffin.
What I learned from doing 1000 code reviews
After reviewing tens of thousands of lines of code, I noticed certain suggestions kept coming up over and over again, here are the top 3.
Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Testin...
Giving better code reviews
I take code reviews very seriously. It’s one of the crucial processes for ensuring the spread of knowledge transfer and best practices…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on code reviews.
Crafting Better Code Reviews
Adapted and reworked from a talk originally given at RailsConf 2017.
The 10 commandments of navigating code reviews
How to survive, and thrive, in the sometimes-caustic world of code reviews.
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