Code Review in Software Development: Best Practices
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Code Review in Software Development: Best Practices

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Code review helps catch bugs and maintain quality in software teams, informed by Google's research on effective feedback.

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  1. 12 July 2026 · corrected by Melik Can Sariyer

    2 corrections applied: The SmartBear/Cisco study was by Jason Cohen, published ~2006, not Atwood 2012. | Sadowski et al. 2018 was a Google study, not a Google-Microsoft collaboration.

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    analyzing data from 2,500 reviews conducted by 50 teams (Atwood, 2012) ... in a landmark Google-Microsoft collaboration published at ICSE

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    analyzing data from 2,500 reviews conducted by 50 teams (Cohen, 2006) ... in a landmark Google case study published at ICSE

    Why: Two corrections: the SmartBear/Cisco study analyzing 2,500 code reviews was authored by Jason Cohen, published around 2006, not Atwood 2012. Separately, the Sadowski et al. 2018 study was a Google-only case study, not a Google-Microsoft collaboration.

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