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 …

Code review is an effective quality assurance practice, but can be labor-intensive since
developers have to manually review the code and provide written feedback. Recently, 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 …

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 …

Context Software developers often use open-source libraries in their project to improve
development speed. However, such libraries may contain security vulnerabilities, and this …

Code review is one of the best practices as a powerful safeguard for software quality. In
practice, senior or highly skilled reviewers inspect source code and provide constructive …

The blockchain technology has potential applications in various areas such as smart-
contracts, Internet of Things (IoT), land registry, supply chain management, storing medical …

There are many aspects of code quality, some of which are difficult to capture or to measure.
Despite the importance of software quality, there is a lack of commonly accepted measures …