Code Review Anxiety
What can devs do about code review anxiety?
I listened to this Stack Overflow podcast with Carol Lee PhD. Being a PhD, she’s written a research paper:
Anxiety about giving and receiving code reviews has been documented as a common occurrence that leads to developers avoiding code reviews by procrastinating and limiting their cognitive engagement with them
There’s some great material linked to that:
And some more free training that seems to be linked to Pluralsight:
TL;DR: anxiety leads to avoidance - there are workshops that can help
How to review code effectively: A GitHub staff engineer’s philosophy
A perspective from a GitHub staff engineer on how to use the GitHub tooling to help find code to review, and how to give good code reviews.
Some final points:
- To approve or not
- Review your own code
- Be welcoming of post-merge reviews
- Use draft pull requests
- Be gracious
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