Awesome Code Review 
A curated list of tools, articles, books, and any other resource
related to code
review
Code review is the systematic examination (sometimes referred to as
peer review) of computer source code.
Contents
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Modern Code
Review: A Case Study at Google A study that shows how code reviews
work at Google.
- 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.
Articles
Books
Talks and Podcasts
- Axolo Github/GitLab Slack
integration. Create one ephemeral channel per pull request/ merge
request.
- Crucible
Atlassian’s on-premise code review tool.
- Gerrit Open source
git code review tool originating out of Google.
- GitHub Git hosting and pioneer of
the “Pull Request”.
- Gitpod Code review pull requests in
a full IDE within your browser.
- LGTM Automated Git code review for
GitHub and Bitbucket pull requests for finding security vulnerabilities
and code quality issues.
- Phabricator
Open source git/mercurial/svn code review tool originating out of
Facebook.
- PullNotifier Improve
pull request visibility and overall productivity for dev teams using
Github and Slack.
- PullRequest Code review
as a service for GitHub pull requests.
- Reviewable Code review tool
built on top of GitHub pull requests.
- Review Board Open source
review tool that is SCM/platform neutral.
- Sider Automated code review
service for GitHub.
- Softagram Automated code change
visualization (and dependency analytics) for pull requests, merge
requests (GitLab) and patch sets (Gerrit).
- SonarCloud Detect code smells,
bugs and vulnerabilities in Azure DevOps, Bitbucket and GitHub
repositories.
- Upsource
JetBrain’s on-premise git/mercurial/perforce/svn code review tool.
- Viezly Code review service with
pull request visualization and enhanced navigation between changes.
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