Quality gatekeepers: investigating the effects of code review bots on pull request activities
Quality gatekeepers: investigating the effects of code review bots on pull request activities
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质量把关人:调查代码审查机器人对拉取请求活动的影响
DOI:
10.1007/s10664-022-10130-9
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Gerosa, Marco A.
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作者:
Wessel, Mairieli;Serebrenik, Alexander;Wiese, Igor;Steinmacher, Igor;Gerosa, Marco A.
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 adoption. Understanding and anticipating such effects is important for planning and management. To analyze these effects, we investigate how several activity indicators change after the adoption of a code review bot. We employed a regression discontinuity design on 1,194 software projects from GitHub. We also interviewed 12 practitioners, including open-source maintainers and contributors. Our results indicate that the adoption of code review bots increases the number of monthly merged pull requests, decreases monthly non-merged pull requests, and decreases communication among developers. From the developers’ perspective, these effects are explained by the transparency and confidence the bot comments introduce, in addition to the changes in the discussion focused on pull requests. Practitioners and maintainers may leverage our results to understand, or even predict, bot effects on their projects.
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DOI:
10.1109/icse.2019.00060
发表时间:
2019-05
期刊:
2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
影响因子:
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作者:
David Kavaler;Asher Trockman;Bogdan Vasilescu;V. Filkov
通讯作者:
David Kavaler;Asher Trockman;Bogdan Vasilescu;V. Filkov
DOI:
10.1109/icsme46990.2020.00098
发表时间:
2020
期刊:
International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
影响因子:
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作者:
Phan-udom Purit;Wattanakul Naruedon;Sakulniwat Tattiya;Ragkhitwetsagul Chaiyong;Sunetnanta Thanwadee;Choetkiertikul Morakot;Kula Raula Gaikovina
通讯作者:
Kula Raula Gaikovina
DOI:
10.1109/botse.2019.00010
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
2019 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE)
影响因子:
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作者:
Monperrus Martin
通讯作者:
Monperrus Martin
DOI:
10.1109/botse.2019.00015
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
2019 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE)
影响因子:
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作者:
Marvin Wyrich;J. Bogner
通讯作者:
J. Bogner
影响因子:
3.8
作者:
Yu;P. Leitner
通讯作者:
P. Leitner