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Code reviews are a critical yet time-consuming aspect of modern software development, increasingly challenged by growing system complexity and the demand for faster delivery. This paper presents a study conducted at WirelessCar Sweden AB,…

Autonomous coding agents are reshaping software development by creating pull requests (PRs) on GitHub, referred to as agentic PRs. In parallel, the review process is also becoming autonomous, thereby making reviewer bots key actors in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Syeda Kaneez Fatima , Yousuf Abrar , Abdul Rehman Tahir , Amelia Nawaz , Shamsa Abid , Abdul Ali Bangash

Readability models and tools have been proposed to measure the effort to read code. However, these models are not completely able to capture the quality improvements in code as perceived by developers. To investigate possible features for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Carlos Eduardo C. Dantas , Adriano M. Rocha , Marcelo A. Maia

Software bugs cost the global economy billions of dollars each year and take up ~50% of the development time. Once a bug is reported, the assigned developer attempts to identify and understand the source code responsible for the bug and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Parvez Mahbub , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Ohiduzzaman Shuvo , Avinash Gopal

Software bots have been facilitating several development activities in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, including code review. However, these bots may bring unexpected impacts to group dynamics, as frequently occurs with new technology…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Mairieli Wessel , Alexander Serebrenik , Igor Wiese , Igor Steinmacher , Marco A. Gerosa

Instead of repeatedly re-analyzing from scratch, an incremental static analysis only analyzes a codebase once completely, and then it updates the previous results based on the code changes. While this sounds promising to achieve speed-ups,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Tamás Szabó

Aim. There are 10s of thousands of code review comments each week at Meta. We developed Metamate for Code Review (MetaMateCR) that provides AI-assisted fixes for reviewer comments in production at scale. Method. We developed an internal…

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT has introduced new dynamics in software development, particularly within pull request workflows. While prior research has examined the quality of AI-generated code, less is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Daniel Ogenrwot , John Businge

Automated program repair (APR) tools have unlocked the potential for the rapid rectification of codebase issues. However, to encourage wider adoption of program repair in practice, it is necessary to address the usability concerns related…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-20 David Williams , James Callan , Serkan Kirbas , Sergey Mechtaev , Justyna Petke , Thomas Prideaux-Ghee , Federica Sarro

Pull Requests (PRs) are a mechanism on modern collaborative coding platforms, such as GitHub. PRs allow developers to tell others that their code changes are available for merging into another branch in a repository. A PR needs to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Ting Zhang , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ferdian Thung , DongGyun Han , David Lo , Lingxiao Jiang

Code review is a critical software engineering practice where developers review code changes before integration to ensure code quality, detect defects, and improve maintainability. In recent years, AI agents that can understand code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Suzhen Zhong , Shayan Noei , Ying Zou , Bram Adams

Context: Software code reviews are an important part of the development process, leading to better software quality and reduced overall costs. However, finding appropriate code reviewers is a complex and time-consuming task. Goals: In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Jakub Lipcak , Bruno Rossi

Numerous efforts have been invested in improving the effectiveness of bug localization techniques, whereas little attention is paid to making these tools run more efficiently in continuously evolving software repositories. This paper first…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Zhou Yang , Jieke Shi , Shaowei Wang , David Lo

In the development and maintenance of Android apps, the quick and accurate reproduction of user-reported bugs is crucial to ensure application quality and improve user satisfaction. However, this process is often time-consuming and complex.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xiangyang Xiao , Huaxun Huang , Rongxin Wu

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

GitHub introduced the suggestion feature to enable reviewers to explicitly suggest code modifications in pull requests. These suggestions make the reviewers' feedback more actionable for the submitters and represent a valuable knowledge for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Abir Bouraffa , Yen Dieu Pham , Walid Maalej

Automation of code reviews using AI models has garnered substantial attention in the software engineering community as a strategy to reduce the cost and effort associated with traditional peer review processes. These models are typically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Leonardo Centellas-Claros , Juan J. Alonso-Lecaros , Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer , Andres Neyem

This study examined code issue detection and revision automation by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4o into software development workflows. A static code analysis framework detects issues such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Seyed Moein Abtahi , Akramul Azim

Pull requests are a key part of the collaborative software development and code review process today. However, pull requests can also slow down the software development process when the reviewer(s) or the author do not actively engage with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Chandra Maddila , Sai Surya Upadrasta , Chetan Bansal , Nachiappan Nagappan , Georgios Gousios , Arie van Deursen

Bug reports provide critical insights into software quality, yet existing datasets often suffer from limited scope, outdated content, or insufficient metadata for machine learning. To address these limitations, we present GitBugs-a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Avinash Patil , Siru Tao , Aryan Jadon