Pull Request Automation

Pull Request Automation

Table of Contents

• Overview
• When to Use
• Quick Start
• Reference Guides
• Best Practices

Overview

Implement pull request automation to streamline code review processes, enforce quality standards, and reduce manual overhead through templated workflows and intelligent assignment rules.

When to Use

• Code review standardization
• Quality gate enforcement
• Contributor guidance
• Review assignment automation
• Merge automation
• PR labeling and organization

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# .github/pull_request_template.md
## Description
Briefly describe the changes made in this PR.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)- [ ] Documentation update
## Related Issues
Closes #(issue number)
## Changes Made
- Change 1- Change 2
## Testing
- [ ] Unit tests added/updated// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Best Practices

✅ DO

• Use PR templates for consistency
• Require code reviews before merge
• Enforce CI/CD checks pass
• Auto-assign reviewers based on code ownership
• Label PRs for organization
• Validate commit messages
• Use squash commits for cleaner history
• Set minimum coverage requirements
• Provide detailed PR descriptions

❌ DON'T

• Approve without reviewing code
• Merge failing CI checks
• Use vague PR titles
• Skip automated checks
• Merge to protected branches without review
• Ignore code coverage drops
• Force push to shared branches
• Merge directly without PR