Code review, where developers manually inspect one another's code changes, improves
software quality and transfers knowledge in a team. Unfortunately, tools that support code …

Refactoring aims at improving the internal structure of a software system without changing its
external behavior. Previous studies empirically assessed, on the one hand, the benefits of …

Because of its many uses and benefits, code reviews are a standard part of the modern
software engineering workflow. Since they require involvement of people, code reviewing is …

The quality of a software system is mostly defined by its source code. Software evolves
continuously, it gets modified, enhanced, and new requirements always arise. If we do not …

Software developers review changes to a code base to prevent new bugs from being
introduced. However, some parts of a change are more likely to introduce bugs than others …

Code reviews are an important mechanism for assuring quality of source code changes.
Reviewers can either add general comments pertaining to the entire change or pinpoint …

Code review is a common software engineering practice employed both in open source and
industrial contexts. Review today is less formal and more “lightweight” than the code …

Modern code review is a common and essential practice employed in both industrial and
open-source projects to improve software quality, share knowledge, and ensure …

Modern Code Review (MCR) demands enhancements in the way change logs are
presented to reviewers. Their task benefits from higher-level descriptions about the intention …

It is very common in various fields that there is a gap between theoretical results and their
practical applications. This is true for code refactoring as well, which has a solid theoretical …