Unreviewed PRs merged
Unreviewed PRs Merged is the number of pull requests that were merged without any review activity.
Computation of the metric
- Information on all merged pull requests, including their merge status and review details, is gathered.
- Each merged PR is checked for the presence of reviewer comments or approvals and the PR is marked as unreviewed when neither is found.
- The total number of unreviewed PRs, including those merged without any reviewer input, identified in the dataset is calculated.
Dashboards where this metric is used
- Dev Metric Grid
- Review collaboration
Use cases of this metric
- Use this to identify teams & PRs and fix systemic issues
- Having unreviewed PRs merged can be an indication of poor engineering practices.
- Unreviewed PRs have higher probability of introducing bugs in production, thus increasing your change failure rate
- Unreviewed PRs can also indicate a lack of expertise in the team to review a complex PR