I’ve Found Something BETTER Than Pull Requests...

Pull Requests are probably the commonest way to organise code reviews, but they present problems that get in the way of Continuous Integration. CI is ultimately more important in our goal to create “Better Software Faster” than code reviews, so this is a problem. So what could we do instead? What works better than PRs and bypasses the downsides of delays, asynchronous and box-ticking, low-quality, reviews? Pair programming is one very good option, but there are others that are a better fit for some teams and organisations. So how should we organise code reviews for big companies and small and what makes a good code review?

In this episode, Dave Farley author of “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” and expert in software development in general, describes what works better than PRs and keeps the changes flowing to keep CI fed. He describes an approach called “Non-Blocking Code Review” and also explores how we can sensibly compare ideas like these without resorting to personal bias.

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