Impact of code review process smells on code smells

buir.advisorTüzün, Eray
dc.contributor.authorTuna, Erdem
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-02T11:11:58Z
dc.date.available2023-03-02T11:11:58Z
dc.date.copyright2023-01
dc.date.issued2023-01
dc.date.submitted2023-01-30
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of article.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 66-79).en_US
dc.description.abstractThe code review process is conducted by software teams with various motivations. Among other goals, code reviews act as a gatekeeper for software quality. Software quality comprises several aspects, maintainability (i.e., code quality) being one of them. In this study, we explore whether code review process quality (as evidenced by the presence of code review process smells) influences software maintainability (as evidenced by the presence of code smells). In other words, we investigate whether smells in the code review process are related to smells in the code that was reviewed by using correlation analysis. We augment our quantitative analysis with a focus group study to learn practitioners’ opinions. Contrary to our own intuition and that of the practitioners in our focus groups, we found that code review process smells have little to no correlation with the level of code smells. Further investigations revealed that the level of code smells neither increases nor decreases in 8 out of 10 code reviews, regardless of the quality of the code review. We identified multiple potential reasons behind the counter-intuitive results based on our focus group data. Furthermore, practitioners still believe that code reviews are helpful in improving software quality. Our results imply that the community should update our goals for code review practices and reevaluate those practices to align them with more relevant and modern realities.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby Erdem Tunaen_US
dc.embargo.release2023-07-30
dc.format.extentxii, 85 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm.en_US
dc.identifier.itemidB161715
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/112018
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectCode reviewsen_US
dc.subjectCode review smellsen_US
dc.subjectProcess smellsen_US
dc.subjectCode smellsen_US
dc.subjectFocus groupen_US
dc.subjectEmpirical studyen_US
dc.subjectMining software repositoriesen_US
dc.titleImpact of code review process smells on code smellsen_US
dc.title.alternativeKod gözden geçirme sürecindeki kötü uygulamaların kod kusurları üzerindeki etkisien_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorBilkent University
thesis.degree.levelMaster's
thesis.degree.nameMS (Master of Science)

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