Concerns identified in code review: A fine-grained, faceted classification

Gunawardena, Sanuri Dananja; Tempero, Ewan; Blincoe, Kelly

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2022.107054

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“…The goal of these recommendations is to develop secure and easier-to-maintain code 31 , less error-prone 32 , and more readable 33 . The no conformity with conventions is a recurrent issue pointed out by code reviewers, according to a recent study 34 .…”

Section: Code Conventionsmentioning

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An Approach Based on Metadata to Implement Convention over Configuration Decoupled from Framework Logic

Gomes

Guerra

Lima

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Frameworks are essential for software development, providing code design and reuse for its users. Well-known Java frameworks and APIs such as Spring, JUnit, and JPA rely on metadata usage, commonly defined by code annotations. Those frameworks use the Java Reflection API for consuming and processing these annotations. Code elements usually have some similarities and can also have the same annotation. This paper proposes a model for defining conventions over configuration for annotations usage decoupled from the metadata reading logic. With this model, if a convention is present, the framework will consider that the element is configured by a specific target annotation, even if the code element does not have the annotation. We implemented this model in the metadata reading framework Esfinge Metadata API. The model implementation was evaluated refactoring an existing framework to add support to conventions using our approach. As a result, it was possible to introduce the conventions only by adding configurations to the annotations. The model was further evaluated in an experiment in which participants implemented the Conventions over Configuration pattern using the Esfinge Metadata API and Java Reflection API. Based on the results, approach fulfilled its goal of supporting the definition of conventions decupled from the framework logic, making the code more readable and easier to maintain according to the participants perception.

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Section: Code Conventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Approach Based on Metadata to Implement Convention over Configuration Decoupled from Framework Logic

Gomes

Guerra

Lima

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Beller et al [7] manually analyzed two open-source systems and studied 1400 code changes in code review to identify fixed code issues, thus demonstrating the practical benefits of the code review process. Gunawardena et al [12] provided a fine-grained taxonomy of defects discussed in code review comments by manually analyzing 417 code review comments. They further identify which code defects can be resolved using existing static analysis tools to reduce the overall effort required in the modern code review process.…”

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On potential improvements in the analysis of the evolution of themes in code review comments

Iftikhar,

Börstler,

Bin Ali

2023

2023 49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)

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The modern code review process is considered an essential quality assurance step in software development.The code review comments generated can provide insights regarding source code quality and development practices. However, the large number of code review comments makes it challenging to identify interesting patterns manually. In a recent study, Wen et al. used traditional topic modeling to analyze the evolution of code review comments. Their approach could identify interesting patterns that may lead to improved development practices.Objective: In this study, we investigate potential improvements to Wen et al.'s state-of-the-art approach to analyze the evolution of code review comments.Method: We used 209,166 code review comments from three open-source systems to explore and empirically analyze alternative design and implementation choices and demonstrate their impact.Results: We identified the following potential improvements to the current state-of-the-art as described by Wen et al.: 1) utilize a topic modeling method that is optimized for short texts, 2) a refined approach for identifying a suitable number of topics, and 3) a more elaborate approach for analyzing topic evolution. Our results indicate that the proposed changes have quantitatively different results than the current approach. The qualitative interpretation of the topics generated with our changes indicates their usefulness.Conclusions: Our results indicate the potential usefulness of changes to state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing the evolution of code review comments, with practical implications for researchers and practitioners. However, further research is required to compare the effectiveness of both approaches.

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Practical Considerations and Solutions in NLP-Based Analysis of Code Review Comments - An Experience Report

Iftikhar

2024

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Concerns identified in code review: A fine-grained, faceted classification

Cited by 8 publications

References 75 publications

An Approach Based on Metadata to Implement Convention over Configuration Decoupled from Framework Logic

An Approach Based on Metadata to Implement Convention over Configuration Decoupled from Framework Logic

On potential improvements in the analysis of the evolution of themes in code review comments

Practical Considerations and Solutions in NLP-Based Analysis of Code Review Comments - An Experience Report

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