Employing lightweight, tool-based code review of code changes (aka modern code review)
has become the norm for a wide variety of open-source and industrial systems. In this paper …

Context: The pull-based development model is widely used in open source projects, leading
to the emergence of trends in distributed software development. One aspect that has …

Software code review, ie, the practice of having other team members critique changes to a
software system, is a well-established best practice in both open source and proprietary …

Software code review, ie, the practice of having third-party team members critique changes
to a software system, is a well-established best practice in both open source and proprietary …

Code reviews are popular in both industrial and open source projects. The benefits of code
reviews are widely recognized and include better code quality and lower likelihood of …

In a large, long-lived project, an effective code review process is key to ensuring the long-
term quality of the code base. In this work, we study code review practices of a large, open …

Over the past decade, both open source and commercial software projects have adopted
contemporary peer code review practices as a quality control mechanism. Prior research …

Code review is the manual assessment of source code by humans, mainly intended to
identify defects and quality problems. Modern Code Review (MCR), a lightweight variant of …

Software developers submit patches to handle tens or even hundreds of bugs reported daily.
However, not all submitted patches can be directly integrated into the code base, since they …

Code review is an essential element of any mature software development project; it aims at
evaluating code contributions submitted by developers. In principle, code review should …