The Science of Code Reviews

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A practical playbook: builds an open‑source Meetup clone to test review habits, shows pair programming and mob programming as tight feedback loops and recommends pull requests with small diffs, linting and CI. Reports a Twitter survey: 73% get peer reviews, 96% say they learn, 87% enjoy reviews. Use tools like PHPStorm diffs, composer security checker/security advisories, PHP CS Fixer, keep code coverage steady, require two code reviews plus one functional test and a third reviewer to break ties.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:40RICK KUIPERS
3. 11:23NAVIGATOR
4. 13:54DO YOU HAVE COLLEAGUES REVIEW YOUR CODE?
5. 14:38DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU LEARN A LOT FROM GIVING AND RECEIVING CODE REVIEWS
6. 15:14DO YOU ENJOY GETTING YOUR CODE REVIEWED?
7. 17:10THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF EGOLESS PROGRAMMING
8. 31:54GETTING STARTED
9. 34:07IMPROVING CODE REVIEWS
10. 38:59ARCHITECTURAL EXPLORATION
11. 40:24WHY AREN'T CODE REVIEWS PART OF YOUR COMPANIES WORKFLOW?
12. 41:27CONVINCING YOUR COMPANY

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