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 …

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 essential activity for ensuring the quality and maintainability of software
projects. However, it is a time-consuming and often error-prone task that can significantly …

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 …

The software development process produces vast amounts of textual data expressed in
natural language. Outcomes from the natural language processing community have been …

Many open source and commercial developers practice contemporary code review, a
lightweight, informal, tool-based code review process. To better understand this process and …

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 ownership establishes a chain of responsibility for modules in large software systems.
Although prior work uncovers a link between code ownership heuristics and software …

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 …