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 …

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 …

Context Code review is a widely used technique of systematic examination of code changes
which aims at increasing software quality. Code reviews provide several benefits for the …

Code review is a software development practice aimed at assessing code quality, finding
defects, and sharing knowledge among developers. Despite its wide adoption, code review …

Commit messages are important complementary information used in understanding code
changes. To address message scarcity, some work is proposed for automatically generating …

Blockchain has attracted wide attention. A smart contract is a program that runs on the
blockchain, and there is evidence that most of the smart contracts on the Ethereum are …

During code reviews, an essential step in software quality assurance, reviewers have the
difficult task of understanding and evaluating code changes to validate their quality and …

Smart contracts have received a lot of attention. A smart contract is a program that runs on a
blockchain. Some recent studies reveal that most of the smart contracts on the Ethereum …

The most popular code review tools (eg, Gerrit and GitHub) present the files to review sorted
in alphabetical order. Could this choice or, more generally, the relative position in which a …

Code commenting is a common programming practice of practical importance to help
developers review and comprehend source code. In our developer survey, commenting has …