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 …

Software undergoes constant changes to support new requirements, address bugs,
enhance performance, and ensure maintainability. Thus, developers spend a great portion …

Commit messages are the atomic level of software documentation. They provide a natural
language description of the code change and its purpose. Messages are critical for software …

Abstract Modern Code Review (MCR) is being adopted in both open-source and proprietary
projects as a common practice. MCR is a widely acknowledged quality assurance practice …

Background: The Pull-Request (PR) model is a widespread approach adopted by open
source software (OSS) projects to support collaborative software development. However, it is …

Emotions (eg, Joy, Anger) are prevalent in daily software engineering (SE) activities, and are
known to be significant indicators of work productivity (eg, bug fixing efficiency). Recent …

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 widely used technique employed in both industrial and open-
source projects to improve software quality, share knowledge, and ensure adherence to …

Peer code review is a widely practiced software engineering process in which software
developers collaboratively evaluate and improve source code quality. Whether developers …

Code review is an essential practice in software engineering to spot code defects in the
early stages of software development. Modern code reviews (eg, acceptance or rejection of …