Abstract Context: Code Review (CR) is the cornerstone for software quality assurance and a
crucial practice for software development. As CR research matures, it can be difficult to keep …

Software refactoring aims at improving code quality while preserving the system's external
behavior. Although in principle refactoring is a behavior-preserving activity, a study …

Modern Code Review (MCR) is a pillar of contemporary quality assurance approaches,
where developers discuss and improve code changes prior to integration. Since review …

Context: Code understandability plays a crucial role in software development, as developers
spend between 58% and 70% of their time reading source code. Improving code …

In practice, a popular and coarse-grained approach for recovering from a problematic
commit is to revert it (ie, undoing the change). However, reverted commits could induce …

The SZZ approach for identifying fix-inducing changes traces backwards from a commit that
fixes a defect to those commits that are implicated in the fix. This approach is at the heart of …

Context Within the field of Mining Software Repositories, there are numerous methods
employed to filter datasets in order to avoid analysing low-quality projects. Unfortunately, the …

The release frequency of software projects has increased in recent years. Adopters of so-
called rapid releases—short release cycles, often on the order of weeks, days, or even hours …

While computer science papers frequently include their associated code repositories,
establishing a clear link between papers and their corresponding implementations may be …

" If we make this change to our code, how will it impact our clients?" It is difficult for library
maintainers to answer this simple---yet essential!---question when evolving their libraries …