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The Best Automated Code Review Tools
Pair code review metrics with automation to improve based on industry standards. Automated code review tools benefit everyone on your team.
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What Is Context Switching and How Does It Hurt Productivity?
Studies indicate developers wait on average 4 days for a pull request review. That’s a lot of idle time. But it’s not like you’re waiting around for...
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The Data Integrity Inversion: Data integrity increases by 67% when manual work decreases
In a Data Integrity study of over 1000 engineering team we found that 31% of work in progress branches we were unlinked to Jira Tickets.
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Leadership
What Does An Engineering Manager Do? A Candid Look
This post is about what an engineering manager does and what exactly their role is in the department in particular and in the enterprise.
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Tech Lead Responsibilities: What to Expect From Them
What should you expect from a tech lead for a software team? LinearB dives into what tech leads do and more on tech lead responsibilities.
Eng. Metrics
How to Count Lines of Code: A Complete Overview
Considering using lines of code to measure how productive your dev teams are? Find out how (and when) to count lines of code.
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Code Coverage Types: Which Is the Best?
Let’s briefly look at what we’re trying to achieve with code coverage because this can help us determine which code coverage types is best.
Eng. Metrics
What Is Code Rot and How Do You Identify It?
Learn about specific types of code rot, the cause and consequences of code rot, and what you can do about it.
Workflow
The When, Why, and How of Refactoring in Agile
Refactoring in agile isn’t only a nice activity, but a vital technique to ensure code quality. Learn more about it in this post.