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 …

Context Due to the association of significant efforts, even a minor improvement in the
effectiveness of Code Reviews (CR) can incur significant savings for a software …

Modern code review is a critical quality assurance process that is widely adopted in both
industry and open source software environments. This process can help newcomers learn …

In code reviews, developers examine code changes authored by peers and provide
feedback through comments. Despite the importance of these comments, no accepted …

Over the past decade, modern code review (MCR) has been deemed as a crucial practice of
software quality assurance, which is applied to improve software quality and transfer …

The various performances of a change in code reviews have received growing concerns
from software organizations and researchers. Researchers have investigated these aspects …

Context Contemporary software development organizations lack diversity, and the ratios of
women in Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) communities are even lower than the …

The code review comment (CRC) is pivotal in the process of modern code review. It provides
reviewers with the opportunity to identify potential bugs, offer constructive feedback, and …

Code reviews are central for software quality assurance. Ideally, reviewers should explain
their feedback to enable authors of code changes to understand the feedback and act …

Code review is an important practice in software development. One of its main objectives is
for the assurance of code quality. For this purpose, the efficacy of code review is subject to …