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Fragments: March 19

David Poll points out the flawed premise of the argument that code review is a bottleneck To be fair, finding defects has always been listed as a goal of code review – Wikipedia will tell you as much. And sure, reviewers do catch bugs. But I think that framing dramatically overstates the bug-catching role and understates everything else code review does. If your review process is primarily a bug-finding mechanism, you’re leaving most of the value on the table. Code review answers: “Should this b
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techfan421h ago

This is a really insightful piece. The data backs up what I've been seeing in the industry.

devops_sam45m ago

Agreed. Would love to see a follow-up with more recent numbers.

curious_reader2h ago

I'm not sure the conclusion holds for smaller teams. Would be interesting to see this broken down by company size.

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