Lessons from maintaining a GitHub Action and a GitHub App
The Reviewpad team has decided to stop updating the Reviewpad and actively recommends that current users migrate to the Reviewpad GitHub App.
How Reviewpad is Putting the Reviewer Assignment Problem to Rest
Streamline your code reviews with Reviewpad. Our advanced algorithm suggests the best reviewers for your pull requests, making your workflow faster and more efficient.
Introducing a Game-Changer: Freddy Mallet Joins Our Team as Chief Product Officer!
Exciting News! We're proud to announce that Freddy Mallet, former Co-founder of SonarSource, has joined our team as Chief Product Officer!
Fluid Pull Requests
Pull Requests have become the backbone of the DevOps movement: the faster, the safer, the better. But the code review step, this systematic and synchronized communication task between humans, inherited from ancient times, slows down the overall development lifecycle for an illusion of safety. It’s time to introduce the Fluid Pull Requests paradigm.
Automate pull requests with GitHub Starter Workflows
This guide shows how you can set up GitHub workflow templates to automate common GitHub pull requests workflows!
Modern trunk-based development
For the old guard software developers, trunk-based development is the way to go. For younger developers, used to GitHub pull requests, it is unlikely that they know what trunk-based means. This article shows how we use automation to combine TBD principles with pull requests and get the best of both worlds.
From Readme to Docusaurus: How an intern saved us $1.2k
Humans tend to overcomplicate, and devs are no exception (on the contrary!). We were paying 99$ a month for a Readme subscription and feeling a lot of friction. Along comes an intern looking for project ideas, and we couldn't be happier.
GitHub Actions for Dummies
Explain to your grandparents what GitHub Actions are in 5 minutes. This is a topic that is getting thrown around more and more with the rise of Pull Request Automation, we have found out that even software engineers don’t fully understand what they are, but here’s a quick fix.
We are starting a code review tip repository
We are looking to build a true repository of code review tips for all devs everywhere. So now it’s up to you guys to help us make it all it can be!
Why developers should care about Knowledge Sharing
The time has come to remind everyone of the fundamental benefits of making whatever knowledge you’ve acquired available to your colleagues.
How to improve code review culture: this one is for managers and CTOs
If you are leading a team, and you need your code reviews to be better, more effective, and a more perfect tool for team-building, what can you actually do?
The Principles of Code Review
Reviewers should find their footing and engage with reviews in the way that works best for them. We do believe, however, that there are principles that are key.
Born to be remote: how we built Reviewpad during the pandemic
João is a friend of Reviewpad and he asked us how we started the project. Here’s the story in his words.
Managing expectations in code reviews
What do you expect a code review to go? Managing these expectations can be daunting. Here are some thoughts on how to manage this.
Pull Requests for Dummies
The confusion between Code Reviews and Pull Requests is very common. So what are pull requests? And why are they called that way?
A code review checklist from Reviewpad
Not all devs need a checklist for code reviews, nor one will suit all code reviews. With that in mind, here's a suggestion of checks that should always be made.
How long should code reviews take?
It's hard to agree exactly how long the ideal code review is. There are too many variables but, hopefully, there are some guidelines we can follow.
Code reviews in a nutshell
Step back and take a good look at code reviews: the basics, why it matters, and how it’s become a cornerstone of software development
Git for Dummies
Let us tell you how collaborating on a book usually happens, and you will understand how Git works.
Reviewpad: Synchronization with Code Hosts
A comprehensive overview of how we ensure the synchronization between Reviewpad and code hosts is flawless.
Git(Hub) Flow, Trunk Based Development, and Code reviews
The right branching model will improve any team's collaboration, quality, and speed. The wrong model will do exactly the opposite. These are the 3 most used branching models.
Reviewpad: Living above Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab
Reviewpad's key design decisions, architecture, and some lessons learned while coliving with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
Code reviews for dummies
Here is a perfected analogy to perfectly explain the Code Review process to non-developers in less than 5 minutes.
Six (more) best practices to improve your code review
Code reviews are (still) complex. We started this series in a previous article and we are back to complete it with six more recommendations.
The case for simpler code reviews
Code reviews are one of the best ways to ensure code quality. A recent survey has found that 36% of the companies that do code reviews (84% of the total) think it is the best way to improve code quality. Too often, however, they are understood as an individual task, instead of a team effort. This article will delve into the status quo of code reviews and where the roadblocks lie.
Six best practices to improve your code reviews
Code reviews require good time management, high emotional intelligence, knowledge of the codebase, and technical expertise. We share six tips to elevate the quality of code reviews.
The internship of a lifetime
Interns are adapting to the job market in a series of unprecedented circumstances. We sat down with our own interns to see how they are dealing with this new experience.
The Code Review Tools Ecosystem
Nowadays, GitHub is the home of open source. The adoption of pull requests has been incredible. But what happens when we move away from open source? What is the most widely used code review tool?
Code Review Metrics That Make Sense
Here are some best practices that we find work well in practice to measure your team's code reviews.
Automation in code reviews: dos and don’ts
What machines can do for us, and why they will never completely replace human interactions in code reviews.
Are code reviews hurting your team?
This article is part of a series on how senior developers think about code reviews and their approach in their teams.
Code reviews need to outgrow pull requests
Pull requests are not the only (or even the best) way to do code reviews. Asynchronous high-quality reviews can be done without PRs with the right tooling.
Continuous code reviews are the way to go
One of the major roadblocks for quality code reviews is how complexity can quickly get overwhelming. Without solving this issue we can’t unlock the full benefits of code reviews.
Context switching: why it hurts code reviews and what we are doing about it
The cost of going back and forth during code reviews and between code reviews and other tasks is standing between us and excellence.
Why you need to be doing code reviews
An overview of the most common concerns and a vision to the future of code reviews. Spoiler: it’s not a fancy AI tool that replaces developers.
Looking into 2020’s Pull Requests: Part III
We present and analyze the ≈ 2.6M merged pull requests from January to March of 2020, on GitHub.
Looking into 2020’s Pull Requests: Part II
In the 2nd part of this series, we'll deep dive into the merged pull requests from 283 034 starred public projects.
Looking into 2020’s Pull Requests: Part I
We are continuously testing semantic code reviews with Github’s Pull Requests from our internal projects and public repositories. In Part I we'll look into the duration of pull requests.