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The modern code review process is an integral part of the current software development practice. Considerable effort is given here to inspect code changes, find defects, suggest an improvement, and address the suggestions of the reviewers.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Md. Khairul Islam , Toufique Ahmed , Rifat Shahriyar , Anindya Iqbal , Gias Uddin

Code reviews are popular in both industrial and open source projects. The benefits of code reviews are widely recognized and include better code quality and lower likelihood of introducing bugs. However, since code review is a manual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Rosalia Tufano , Luca Pascarella , Michele Tufano , Denys Poshyvanyk , Gabriele Bavota

The code review comment (CRC) is pivotal in the process of modern code review. It provides reviewers with the opportunity to identify potential bugs, offer constructive feedback, and suggest improvements. Clear and concise code review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Junkai Chen , Zhenhao Li , Qiheng Mao , Xing Hu , Kui Liu , Xin Xia

Software engineering agents have shown significant promise in writing code. As AI agents permeate code writing, and generate huge volumes of code automatically -- the matter of code quality comes front and centre. As the automatically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yuntong Zhang , Zhiyuan Pan , Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Haifeng Ruan , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Abhik Roychoudhury

Automatic code review (ACR), aiming to relieve manual inspection costs, is an indispensable and essential task in software engineering. The existing works only use the source code fragments to predict the results, missing the exploitation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Bingting Wu , Xiaofang Zhang

Code Review (CR) is the cornerstone for software quality assurance and a crucial practice for software development. As CR research matures, it can be difficult to keep track of the best practices and state-of-the-art in methodology,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Dong Wang , Yuki Ueda , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Takashi Ishio , Kenichi Matsumoto

Reviewing source code is a common practice in a modern and collaborative coding environment. In the past few years, the research on modern code reviews has gained interest among practitioners and researchers. The objective of our…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Deepika Badampudi , Ricardo Britto , Michael Unterkalmsteiner

Code review is considered a key process in the software industry for minimizing bugs and improving code quality. Inspection of review process effectiveness and continuous improvement can boost development productivity. Such inspection is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Saifullah Mahbub , Md. Easin Arafat , Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman , Zannatul Ferdows , Masum Hasan

Manual code reviews are an essential but time-consuming part of software development, often leading reviewers to prioritize technical issues while skipping valuable assessments. This paper presents an algorithmic model that automates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yegor Denisov-Blanch , Igor Ciobanu , Simon Obstbaum , Michal Kosinski

Code review is a well-established and valued practice in the software engineering community contributing to both code quality and interpersonal benefits. However, there are challenges in both tools and processes that give rise to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lo Gullstrand Heander , Emma Söderberg , Christofer Rydenfält

Code review is a critical practice in modern software engineering, helping developers detect defects early, improve code quality, and facilitate knowledge sharing. With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), a growing body…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Taufiqul Islam Khan , Shaowei Wang , Haoxiang Zhang , Tse-Hsun Chen

The principle of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction (MCR$^2$) has recently been proposed as a training objective for learning discriminative low-dimensional structures intrinsic to high-dimensional data to allow for more robust training than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Christina Baek , Ziyang Wu , Kwan Ho Ryan Chan , Tianjiao Ding , Yi Ma , Benjamin D. Haeffele

Modern Code Review (MCR) plays a key role in software quality practices. In MCR process, a new patch (i.e., a set of code changes) is encouraged to be examined by reviewers in order to identify weaknesses in source code prior to an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Shade Ruangwan , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Akinori Ihara , Kenichi Matsumoto

High-quality evaluation benchmarks are pivotal for deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in Automated Code Review (ACR). However, existing benchmarks suffer from two critical limitations: first, the lack of multi-language support in…

The paper presents a systematic methodology for analyzing software developer productivity by refining contribution rate metrics to distinguish meaningful development efforts from anomalies. Using the Mean-High Model Contribution Rate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Vincil Bishop , Steven Simske

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is the task of answering a question over a paragraph of text. While neural MRC systems gain popularity and achieve noticeable performance, issues are being raised with the methodology used to establish…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Viktor Schlegel , Marco Valentino , André Freitas , Goran Nenadic , Riza Batista-Navarro

Developers spend 70% of their time understanding code. Code that is easy to read can save time, while hard-to-read code can lead to the introduction of bugs. However, it is difficult to establish what makes code more understandable.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Delano Oliveira

Effective peer code review in collaborative software development necessitates useful reviewer comments and supportive automated tools. Code review comments are a central component of the Modern Code Review process in the industry and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Sharif Ahmed , Nasir U. Eisty

Background: During software maintenance and development, the comprehension of program code is key to success. High-quality comments can help us better understand programs, but they're often missing or outmoded in today's programs. Automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yuxiang Zhu , Minxue Pan

The automation of code review has been tackled by several researchers with the goal of reducing its cost. The adoption of deep learning in software engineering pushed the automation to new boundaries, with techniques imitating developers in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Rosalia Tufano , Ozren Dabić , Antonio Mastropaolo , Matteo Ciniselli , Gabriele Bavota