Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google
(2018) ICSE'18: 40th International Conference on Software Engineering p.181-190- Abstract
- Employing lightweight, tool-based code review of code changes (aka modern code review) has become the norm for a wide variety of open-source and industrial systems. In this paper, we make an exploratory investigation of modern code review at Google. Google introduced code review early on and evolved it over the years; our study sheds light on why Google introduced this practice and analyzes its current status, after the process has been refined through decades of code changes and millions of code reviews. By means of 12 interviews, a survey with 44 respondents, and the analysis of review logs for 9 million reviewed changes, we investigate motivations behind code review at Google, current practices, and developers' satisfaction and... (More)
- Employing lightweight, tool-based code review of code changes (aka modern code review) has become the norm for a wide variety of open-source and industrial systems. In this paper, we make an exploratory investigation of modern code review at Google. Google introduced code review early on and evolved it over the years; our study sheds light on why Google introduced this practice and analyzes its current status, after the process has been refined through decades of code changes and millions of code reviews. By means of 12 interviews, a survey with 44 respondents, and the analysis of review logs for 9 million reviewed changes, we investigate motivations behind code review at Google, current practices, and developers' satisfaction and challenges. (Less)
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- author
- Sadowski, Caitlin ; Söderberg, Emma LU ; Church, Luke ; Sipko, Michal and Bacchelli, Alberto
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Software Engineering, Software notations and tools, Software maintenance tools
- host publication
- 2018 ACM/IEEE 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice 181 2
- pages
- 181 - 190
- publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- conference name
- ICSE'18: 40th International Conference on Software Engineering
- conference location
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2018-05-27 - 2018-06-03
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85049691666
- ISBN
- 978-1-4503-5659-6
- DOI
- 10.1145/3183519.3183525
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 0d6ac3f5-152e-4acc-93b1-4baaf701ac87
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