There’s some 2015 research out of Microsoft titled Code Reviews Do Not Find Bugs11 Code Reviews Do Not Find Bugs; How the Current Code Review Best Practice Slows Us Down; Czerwonka, Greiler, Tilford; IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering; 2015. which seems strangely named because reviewers do find bugs. Here’s what the authors say: Contrary to the often stated primary goal of code reviews, they often do not find functionality defects that should block a code submission. Only abou...