Code review is an essential element of any mature software development project; it aims at
evaluating code contributions submitted by developers. In principle, code review should …

Code review is a common software engineering practice employed both in open source and
industrial contexts. Review today is less formal and more “lightweight” than the code …

Code review is advocated as one of the best practices to improve software quality and
reduce the likelihood of introducing defects during code change activities. Recent research …

Code review is the process of having other team members examine changes to a software
system in order to evaluate its technical content and quality. A lightweight variant of this …

Over the past decade, both open source and commercial software projects have adopted
contemporary peer code review practices as a quality control mechanism. Prior research …

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 …

Because of its many uses and benefits, code reviews are a standard part of the modern
software engineering workflow. Since they require involvement of people, code reviewing is …

When submitting a patch, the primary concerns of individual developers are “How can I
maximize the chances of my patch being approved, and minimize the time it takes for this to …

Code reviews are an important part of software development because they help to increase
code quality and reliability. For this paper, we observed the review processes of two open …

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 …