Papers

There are too many papers on the topics to list. Here are some to get you started with:

• Another collection of code review papers.
• Code Review Papers
• Distributed code review system for Git repos
• Code Review is just reviewing code? A qualitative study with practitioners in industry
• Code review quality: how developers see it
• What really matters in Code Review? A study about challenges and opportunities related to code review in industry
• Using nudges to accelerate code reviews at scale
• The impact of human factors on the participation decision of reviewers in modern code review
• Understanding the Experience of Code Review: Misalignments, Attention, and Units of Analysis
• Revisiting code ownership and its relationship with software quality in the scope of modern code review
• Open source software peer review practices: a case study of the Apache server
• Does every inspection need a meeting?
• Understanding the sources of variation in software inspections
• Can we benchmark Code Review studies? A systematic mapping study of methodology, dataset, and metric
• Replication Package for “The Impact of Human Factors on the Participation Decision of Reviewers in Modern Code Review”
• What happens in my code reviews? An investigation on automatically classifying review changes
• Investigating the effectiveness of peer code review in distributed software development based on objective and subjective data
• Concerns identified in code review: A fine-grained, faceted classification
• Reviewing rounds prediction for code patches

Other stuff about code reviews

• Mining Code Review Repositories
• Working with Gerrit: An example
• A list of cool features of Git and GitHub
• Problems with Pull Requests and How to Fix Them