Code reviews are vital for ensuring good code quality and fostering teamwork. They serve as one of our last lines of defense against bugs and subpar code reaching production. Yet, they often turn into annoying tasks riddled with frustration, hostility, unclear feedback and lack of standard practices. How can this crucial process be improved?

Key topics include:

1. Creating review-friendly pull requests: Demonstrating how to prepare a pull request

2. Effective code reviews: Showcasing how to approach reviews, provide constructive feedback, and enhance collaboration through positivity.

3. Using automated tools for code quality assurance: Demonstrating tools for code consistency and quality checks - eliminating needless discussions and focusing on core changes.

This session will leave attendees with practical tactics for improving pull requests, performing better code reviews, and a suite of tools to simplify the review process and boost code quality.

We write tests to tackle bugs, verify functionality and to ease maintenance.

Using code coverage as our metric we might deem ourselves safe and our tests flawless.

But how can we be sure that our tests are okay? The fact that tests cover the code doesn't imply the code is working correctly.

A missing assertion can be an opening for a plethora of bugs!

In this talk we will enter the world of mutation testing.

By generating mutants, i.e., faulty versions of your code, we measure how tests perform in detecting bugs.

We will cover mutation tools, how they work, how to get started, how to integrate it in your builds and when you should consider it.