Implementing Code Quality and Code Review Standards in Azure DevOps

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Branch policies help teams protect their important branches of development. Policies enforce your team's code quality and change management standards.

To validate code quality and ensure that code review standards are met, you can implement branch policies in Azure DevOps. Branch policies are a set of rules that you define to govern the quality of code changes to a specific branch. They can be used to enforce a variety of requirements, such as requiring code reviews, build validation, and other types of tests.

To implement branch policies, follow these steps:

1. Open your project in Azure DevOps and navigate to the repository where your code is stored.
2. Click on the "Branches" tab to view a list of all the branches in your repository.
3. Select the branch that you want to add policies to and click on the "… " icon to the right of the branch name.
4. Select "Branch policies" from the drop-down menu.
5. In the Branch policies pane, you can configure a set of policies that will apply to the branch. For example, you can require code reviews before changes are merged into the branch, or require that builds pass before changes are merged.
6. Click "Save" to apply the policies to the branch.

Once the policies are set up, any code changes that are submitted to the branch will be subject to the policies you've defined. If a change doesn't meet the criteria set by the policies, it will be rejected and the developer will need to address the issues before the change can be merged.

In summary, to validate code quality and ensure that code review standards are met in Azure DevOps, you should recommend implementing branch policies.