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| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Product-Focused Software Process Improvement -18th International Conference, PROFES 2017, Proceedings |
| Editors | Burak Turhan, Dietmar Winkler, Federica Sarro, Marcos Kalinowski, Daniel Mendez Fernandez, Michael Felderer |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Pages | 111-127 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (print) | 9783319699257 |
| Publication status | Published - 28 Oct 2017 |
| Event | 18th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2017 - Innsbruck, Austria Duration: 29 Nov 2017 → 1 Dec 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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| Volume | 10611 LNCS |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Abstract
Code review has been known to be an effective quality assurance technique for decades. In the last years, industrial code review practices were observed to converge towards “change-based/modern code review”, but with a lot of variation in the details of the processes. Recent research also proposed hypotheses on factors that influence the choice of process. However, all current research in this area is based on small and largely non-random samples of cases. Therefore, we set out to assess the current state of the practice and to test some of these hypotheses with a survey among commercial software development teams. We received responses from 240 teams. They support many of the stated hypotheses, e.g., that change-based code review is the dominating style of code review in the industry, and that teams doing change-based code review have a lower risk that review use fades away. However, other hypotheses could not be confirmed, mainly that the balance of effects a team tries to reach with code reviews acts as a mediator in determining the details of the review process. Apart from these findings, we contribute the survey data set as a foundation for future research.
Keywords
- Change-based code review, Code inspections and walkthroughs, Code reviews, Empirical software engineering, Modern code review
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mathematics(all)
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Science(all)
- General Computer Science
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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement -18th International Conference, PROFES 2017, Proceedings. ed. / Burak Turhan; Dietmar Winkler; Federica Sarro; Marcos Kalinowski; Daniel Mendez Fernandez; Michael Felderer. Springer Verlag, 2017. p. 111-127 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10611 LNCS).
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