Bad smells are sub-optimal code structures that may represent problems needing attention.
We conduct an extensive literature review on bad smells relying on a large body of …

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 …

Code review is a practice widely adopted in open source and industrial projects. Given the
non-negligible cost of such a process, researchers started investigating the possibility of …

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

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 …

Change-level defect prediction [5], aka, Just-In-Time (JIT) defect prediction [1], is an
alternative to module-level defect prediction that offers several advantages. First, since code …

Code review is effective, but human-intensive (eg, developers need to manually modify
source code until it is approved). Recently, prior work proposed a Neural Machine …

Classifier specific (CS) and classifier agnostic (CA) feature importance methods are widely
used (often interchangeably) by prior studies to derive feature importance ranks from a …

Code review is an important part of the software development process. Recently, many open
source projects have begun practicing code review through “modern” tools such as GitHub …

Contemporary code review is a widespread practice used by software engineers to maintain
high software quality and share project knowledge. However, conducting proper code …