80-20-review

Prioritize code review by applying blast radius scoring to focus effort on the 20% of changes that cause 80% of issues. This approach targets security, data access, and concurrency over formatting, directing deep inspection to critical paths like middleware and auth boundaries.

Blast radius scoring in code review is a risk-driven method that guides how deeply to inspect changes based on which system parts they affect. It measures the potential impact of modifications across middleware, auth, DB schema, and shared concerns to allocate review time effectively.

Review .NET pull requests by applying checkpoint-specific checklists that target N+1 queries, CancellationToken propagation, async blocking, and entity leaks. This identifies critical path risks in data access and concurrency boundaries before merging.

Schedule code review checkpoints at natural stages including post-implementation, pre-PR, post-integration, and post-deploy. Each checkpoint applies different depth levels to ensure review effort matches the risk profile of the current development phase.

Yes, you can automate formatting and trivial style checks while focusing human review on security, correctness, and reliability issues. This 80/20 review strategy ensures reviewers spend time catching auth gaps, secret exposure, and exception handling problems instead of styling.

Risk-based PR prioritization does not replace comprehensive review for critical systems; it focuses on known high-risk areas like data access, security, and concurrency. It may miss novel issues in low-risk areas and requires accurate critical-path identification to be effective.