Code Review Participation

DEFINITION

Code review participation helps to answer whether all developers in your organization or group are participating in code reviews. Maintaining high code review participation helps teams improve code quality and avoid review bottlenecks — leading to faster development cycles and improved productivity.

HOW IT’S MEASURED

Code review participation is calculated as the count of developers who reviewed one or more pull requests divided by the total number of developers.

A participation rate of 70%, for example, reveals that 30% of developers aren’t participating in code reviews.

Developers participate in code reviews by leaving comments, requesting changes, or approving pull requests.