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Gavidia-Calderon, Carlos; Han, DongGyun and Bennaceur, Amel
(2022).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3524842.3528522
URL: https://conf.researchr.org/details/msr-2022/msrhac...
Abstract
We explore the role of reciprocity in code review processes. Reciprocity manifests itself in two ways: 1) reviewing code for others translates to accepted code contributions, and 2) having contributions accepted increases the reviews made for others. We use vector autoregressive (VAR) models to explore the causal relation between reviews performed and accepted contributions. After fitting VAR models for 24 active open-source developers, we found evidence of reciprocity in 6 of them. These results suggest reciprocity does play a role in code review, that can potentially be exploited to increase reviewer participation.
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Not Set EP/V026747/1 EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Not Set EP/R013144/1 EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) - Keywords
- code review; collaboration; time series analysis
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Copyright Holders
- © 2022 Association for Computing Machinery
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- Carlos Gavidia-Calderon