Amazon Q’s summarizing capability in Amazon CodeCatalyst

Developers will understand the pain of trying to comprehend the changes made in a pull request submission. Typically, the people who make code changes are not the ones approving them. So, someone else needs to understand all the changes made in the code base, analyze their intended effect, and finally, approve them if they meet the standards.

Without proper comments, it’s difficult to understand all the nuances of the changes made. Sometimes, even with comments, it gets overwhelming to grasp the full intention of the changes. This is where Amazon Q steps in to make life easier for developers and approvers.

Let’s look at Amazon Q’s ability to analyze code changes and generate a summary of the changes when creating a pull request, as well as create a summary based on all the comments made on the code changes in a pull request.

Pull request comment summary

When reviewing a pull request, users...