Cracking the Code Review

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Claims that poorly timed reviews cost huge sums — citing $316 billion in 2013 — drive concrete fixes: enforce linted PR titles and conventional commits, add PR templates with checklists, require self-review and targeted reviewer tags, and use automation like inline code coverage, OpenRewrite and Google Java Format to remove noise. Examples include automating style fixes, detecting dead code and missing assertions, offering apply suggestions for one-click changes, and enforcing architecture rules with ArchUnit — these interventions noticeably shrink churn and speed merges.

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1. 0:00Code review importance
2. 1:04Cost of bugs and benefits
3. 2:06What is code review
4. 3:12When code reviews may not be necessary
5. 3:55Review-friendly pull requests
6. 6:03Clear PR titles and descriptions
7. 8:29Effective PR descriptions
8. 9:55Examples and context in PRs
9. 11:17PR templates and checklists
10. 12:00Self-reviewing PRs
11. 12:42Documenting changes in PRs
12. 14:07Requesting reviews efficiently
13. 15:52Context and urgency in requests
14. 16:34Human factors in reviews
15. 17:36Tone and social skills
16. 17:57Vague feedback issues
17. 18:41Endless PR discussions
18. 19:22Responding to feedback
19. 20:04Giving reviews as reviewer
20. 20:25When to start reviewing
21. 21:29PR review responsibility
22. 22:12How to review a PR
23. 22:33Reading PR descriptions first
24. 23:36Prioritizing review feedback
25. 24:18Functionality and tests focus
26. 25:42Tools for efficient reviews
27. 26:44Editor for better reviews
28. 27:50Constructive review comments
29. 28:53Words in review feedback
30. 30:39Specificity and ambiguity
31. 31:40Suggestions and alternatives
32. 32:42Positives in code reviews
33. 33:46Avoiding bike shedding
34. 34:49Automating trivial discussions
35. 36:12Static analysis tools
36. 38:44Automating migrations
37. 39:26Consistent code formatting
38. 40:50Opinionated formatting tools
39. 41:51ArchUnit architectural rules
40. 43:14Implementing tools gradually
41. 43:57Effective code review takeaways
42. 44:18Closing remarks and Q&A

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