Overview
Code reviews are an important part of a developer’s life. It’s very easy to perform code reviews, but hard to do it with empathy. In today’s online world, online criticism can be misinterpreted easily. Hence, in this talk we will go through what is a pull request, how to effectively create one, how to give constructive feedback and also how to respond to one using empathy.
This talk will also teach you techniques on breakdown your feature testing strategies, learning when to take the conversation offline, resolving disagreements, going above and beyond in your job as a developer, and more.
After this talk, you will learn how your choice of words will help you get the point across, while building a positive relationship with your team, setting you up to focus on the most important thing i.e. writing great software.
Objective
To show ways we can learn how to humanize code reviews
Target Audience
Anyone who writes code
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
- How to write a pull request (PR)
- How to create a PR
- How to review a PR
- Techniques we can apply in our process
- Some helpful tools