Code reviewer recommendation based on cross-project and technology experience

基于跨项目和技术经验的代码审查员推荐

• 批准号: 491464-2015
• 负责人: Roy, ChanchalKumar
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: University of Saskatchewan
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=586927
• 关键词: Code; reviewer; recommendation; based; cross

Code review is a manual examination of source code to find out simple errors, coding rules violations, or logical mistakes in the newly developed code. Peer code review is an informal but highly effective code review practice adopted by the software industries in recent years. VendAsta is one of the largest software companies based in Saskatchewan with 150+ employees and 50+ software products and services. The company uses GitHub, an online project hosting service, to store and manage all of its source code, and emphasizes peer code review for ensuring high quality in the products and services. One of the most challenging tasks involved with the review process is the identification of an expert reviewer. The knowledge as to who is an appropriate reviewer for any given code is tribal, which means it is not very consistent, and these identification tasks are almost impossible for new employees. Thus, developers at VendAsta often spend a significant amount of time in looking for appropriate code reviewers. Our research will address this non-trivial problem, and we will develop a tool that can automatically recommend a list of appropriate code reviewers for any given code review task exploiting both the cross-project experience in the usage of libraries and specialized technologies. The tool would automate the code reviewer selection process, and thus, would increase developers' productivity as well as software product quality in the long run, providing direct economic benefits to VendAsta and Canada overall.

代码审查是对源代码的手动检查，以找出简单的错误，编码规则违反，或 新开发代码中的逻辑错误。同行代码评审是一种非正式但非常有效的代码评审 这是近年来软件行业采用的做法。VendAsta是全球最大的软件公司之一， 总部位于萨斯喀彻温省，拥有150多名员工和50多个软件产品和服务。该公司使用 GitHub是一个在线项目托管服务，用于存储和管理其所有源代码，并强调对等代码 审查以确保产品和服务的高质量。最具挑战性的任务之一， 审查过程是确定一名专家审查员。至于谁是合适的人选， 任何给定代码的审阅者都是部落式的，这意味着它不是非常一致的，这些识别任务是 对于新员工来说几乎是不可能的。因此，VendAsta的开发人员经常花费大量时间 寻找合适的代码审查员。我们的研究将解决这个重要的问题，我们将 开发一个工具，可以为任何给定的代码评审自动推荐一个合适的代码评审员列表 利用跨项目的经验，在使用图书馆和专业技术的任务。工具 将自动化代码审查者的选择过程，因此，也将提高开发人员的生产力 从长远来看，软件产品质量，为VendAsta和加拿大提供直接的经济利益 总的来说。