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 …

Every software system undergoes changes, for example, to add new features, fix bugs, or
refactor code. The importance of understanding software changes has been widely …

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 …

Pull requests are a key part of the collaborative software development and code review
process today. However, pull requests can also slow down the software development …

Background. Where to start contributing to a project is a critical challenge for newcomers of
open source projects. To support newcomers, GitHub utilizes the Good First Issue (GFI) …

Abstract Modern Code Review (MCR) is an essential practice in software engineering. MCR
helps with the early detection of defects and preventing poor implementation practices and …

Decisions run through the whole software development and maintenance processes.
Explicitly documenting these decisions helps to organize development knowledge and to …

The pull request mechanism is commonly used to propose source code modifications and
get feedback from the community before merging them into a software repository. On GitHub …

Background: Many software bug prediction models have been proposed and evaluated on a
set of well-known benchmark datasets. We conducted pilot studies on the widely used …

Context: Code changes to software occur due to various reasons such as bug fixing, new
feature addition, and code refactoring. Change intents have been studied for years to help …