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Enhancing Code Review Efficiency: A Quantitative Analysis of Factors Influencing Code Change Reviewability

Authors: Emily J. Mitchell; Ryan T. Thompson;

Enhancing Code Review Efficiency: A Quantitative Analysis of Factors Influencing Code Change Reviewability

Abstract

Peer code review is a practice widely adopted in software projects to improve the quality of code. In current code review practices, code changes are manually inspected by developers other than the author before these changes are integrated into a project or put into production. We conducted a study to obtain an empirical understanding of what makes a code change easier to review. To this end, we surveyed published academic literature and sources from gray literature (e.g., blogs and white papers), we interviewed ten professional developers, and we designed and deployed a reviewability evaluation tool that professional developers used to rate the reviewability of 98 changes. We find that reviewability is defined through several factors, such as the change description, size, and coherent commit history. We provide recommendations for practitioners and researchers. The preprint and data for this CCS CONCEPTS • Software and its engineering → Collaboration in software development;

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