Background: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a lightweight alternative to traditional code
inspections. While secondary studies on MCR exist, it is ua nknown whether the research …

Abstract Context: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a widely known practice of software quality
assurance. However, the existing body of knowledge of MCR is currently not understood as …

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 …

Defect models that are trained on class imbalanced datasets (ie, the proportion of defective
and clean modules is not equally represented) are highly susceptible to produce inaccurate …

Defect prediction models-classifiers that identify defect-prone software modules-have
configurable parameters that control their characteristics (eg, the number of trees in a …

Defect prediction is proposed to assist practitioners effectively prioritize limited Software
Quality Assurance (SQA) resources on the most risky files that are likely to have post-release …

Software analytics have empowered software organisations to support a wide range of
improved decision-making and policy-making. However, such predictions made by software …

Defect prediction models are proposed to help a team prioritize the areas of source code
files that need Software Quality Assurance (SQA) based on the likelihood of having defects …

Just-In-Time (JIT) defect prediction (ie, an AI/ML model to predict defect-introducing
commits) is proposed to help developers prioritize their limited Software Quality Assurance …

Over the past decade with the rise of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) field, the
modelling of defects for large and long-lived systems has become one of the most common …