Automate code reviews with Rovo
10 min
By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to:
- Use the Rovo code reviewer agent to automate and standardize code review processes
- Identify and address code quality, security, and documentation issues efficiently
- Accelerate the journey from pull request to merged code
Automate and streamline code reviews
👉 Our scenario: Alex is a lead developer responsible for ensuring code quality before merging a pull request into a web application repository on Bitbucket. Alex has to review code changes, run tests, and ensure that the new features integrate seamlessly with the existing codebase.
To optimize the time spent reviewing code, Alex decided to introduce Rovo’s code review agent to the team. The Rovo agent helps automate the code review process, provides actionable feedback, and accelerates the transition from pull request creation to merge-ready code.
How Rovo transforms your code review workflow
Rovo Dev addresses common pain points in the code review process, such as time-consuming manual checks, inconsistent feedback, and overlooked issues like missing documentation or insufficient test coverage. By automating these repetitive and error-prone tasks, Rovo Dev ensures that every pull request is thoroughly reviewed for code quality, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to team standards, allowing developers to focus on higher-value work and innovation.
Alex and his development team are implementing a web application with source code on Bitbucket for source code management. The development team has implemented a user authentication feature and submitted a pull request for review. Before merging, Alex wants to ensure the code is robust, secure, and well-documented.
Review a pull request with Rovo
Alex wants to ensure that Rovo reviews the user authentication feature pull request.
To do this, several prerequisites must be met:
- Bitbucket must be connected to Jira by DVCS.
- Rovo Dev must be enabled on the organization that contains the Jira site.
- Alex must have Bitbucket workspace administrator permissions to activate Rovo Dev on the workspace.
- Alex must be a repository administrator to enable Rovo Dev code reviews on Bitbucket repositories.
- Alex must be an Atlassian organization admin to install Rovo Dev via Admin hub.
- The Bitbucket workspace must be on a paid plan (Standard, Premium, or Enterprise).
- The Bitbucket workspace must be connected to a paid Jira site (Standard, Premium, or Enterprise).
With these requirements in place, Alex can confidently have Rovo Dev review the pull request and streamline the code review process.
👇 Here’s where Alex can see if the Rovo Dev is added to his Atlassian site.
Activate the code reviewer
Alex now needs to activate and use the code reviewer to improve workflow efficiency. Rovo Dev’s code reviewer feedback helps standardize code reviews across the team, reducing manual effort and catching issues early.
👇Click the boxes below to learn how to activate Rovo Dev code reviews.
Facilitate bulk review with Rovo
Rovo Dev can also handle bulk code reviews, making it ideal for large-scale changes across multiple repositories.
👉 For example: If your team is updating a deprecated API or applying a security patch across many services, Rovo Dev can review each pull request for consistency and quality, ensuring organization-wide standards are met.
To use Rovo Dev to bulk review pull requests:
- Make the necessary changes: Develop the necessary code changes.
- Provide acceptance criteria to Rovo Dev: Ensure acceptance criteria are included in work items, such as coding standards, security requirements, or specific patterns to check.
- Create pull requests: Create pull requests, making sure to link them to the relevant work items.
- Initiate bulk review: Rovo Dev will automatically trigger a review of all relevant pull requests in bulk.
- Review Rovo Dev’s feedback: Rovo Dev analyzes each pull request, providing comments and suggestions for improvements or flagging inconsistencies.
- Address feedback and create pull requests: Developers review Rovo Dev’s feedback, make any required changes, and create pull requests.
- Approve and merge: Once all issues are resolved, proceed with the final review and merge the pull requests.