Chapter 9

A Mixed Methods Approach to Mining Code Review Data

Examples and a Study of Multicommit Reviews and Pull Requests

Peter C. Rigby*; Alberto Bacchelli; Georgios Gousios; Murtuza Mukadam*    * Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada Department of Software and Computer Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Abstract

Software code review has been considered an important quality assurance mechanism for the last 35 years. The techniques for conducting modern code reviews have evolved along with the software industry, and have become progressively ...

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