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 …

The advent of distributed version control systems has led to the development of a new
paradigm for distributed software development; instead of pushing changes to a central …

Context: The pull-based development model is widely used in open source projects, leading
to the emergence of trends in distributed software development. One aspect that has …

In the pull-based development model, the integrator has the crucial role of managing and
integrating contributions. This work focuses on the role of the integrator and investigates …

Software code review, ie, the practice of having other team members critique changes to a
software system, is a well-established best practice in both open source and proprietary …

The pull-based development model is an emerging way of contributing to distributed
software projects that is gaining enormous popularity within the open source software (OSS) …

Software code review, ie, the practice of having third-party team members critique changes
to a software system, is a well-established best practice in both open source and proprietary …

Software code review is an inspection of a code change by an independent third-party
developer in order to identify and fix defects before an integration. Effectively performing …

In a large, long-lived project, an effective code review process is key to ensuring the long-
term quality of the code base. In this work, we study code review practices of a large, open …

Software developers submit patches to handle tens or even hundreds of bugs reported daily.
However, not all submitted patches can be directly integrated into the code base, since they …