Abstract Context: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a widely known practice of software quality
assurance. However, the existing body of knowledge of MCR is currently not understood as …

Background: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a lightweight alternative to traditional code
inspections. While secondary studies on MCR exist, it is ua nknown whether the research …

Contemporary software development is distributed and characterized by high dynamics with
continuous and frequent changes to fix defects, add new user requirements or adapt to other …

Large language models like BERT and GPT possess significant capabilities and potential
impacts across various applications. Software engineers often use these models for code …

Context: Various types of artifacts (requirements, source code, test cases, documents, etc.)
are produced throughout the lifecycle of a software. These artifacts are connected with each …

Code review is a common practice in software development and often conducted before
code changes are merged into the code repository. A number of approaches for …

Code review is the process of inspecting code changes by a developer who is not involved
in the development of the changeset. One of the initial and important steps of code review …

Determining the right code reviewer for a given code change requires understanding the
characteristics of the changed code, identifying the skills of each potential reviewer …

Recently, major software development platforms have started to provide automatic reviewer
recommendation (ARR) services for pull requests, to improve the collaborative coding …

Code review is a commonly used practice in software development. It refers to the process of
reviewing new code changes before they are merged with the code base. However, to …