3 papers
cs.SE2025
Not One to Rule Them All: Mining Meaningful Code Review Orders From GitHub
Abir Bouraffa, Carolin Brandt, Andy Zaidmann +1
Developers use tools such as GitHub pull requests to review code, discuss proposed changes, and request modifications. While changed files are commonly presented in alphabetical or…
cs.SE2025
How Do Developers Use Code Suggestions in Pull Request Reviews?
Abir Bouraffa, Yen Dieu Pham, Walid Maalej
GitHub introduced the suggestion feature to enable reviewers to explicitly suggest code modifications in pull requests. These suggestions make the reviewers' feedback more actionab…
cs.SE2024
Explaining Explanation: An Empirical Study on Explanation in Code Reviews
Ratnadira Widyasari, Ting Zhang, Abir Bouraffa +2
Code reviews are central for software quality assurance. Ideally, reviewers should explain their feedback to enable authors of code changes to understand the feedback and act accor…