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Quo Vadis, Code Review? Exploring the Future of Code Review
Michael Dorner, Andreas Bauer, Darja Å mite +6
Context: Code review has long been a core practice in collaborative software engineering. As automation becomes increasingly embedded in development workflows, the role and functio…
Towards a Software Architecture Description for Tax Compliance
Michael Dorner, Oliver Treidler, Tom-Eric Kunz +5
The internal reuse of software components owned by organizational units in different countries constitutes an implicit form of licensing that may be taxable under international reg…
The Capability of Code Review as a Communication Network
Michael Dorner, Daniel Mendez
Background: Code review, a core practice in software engineering, has been widely studied as a collaborative process, with prior work suggesting it functions as a communication net…
The Upper Bound of Information Diffusion in Code Review
Michael Dorner, Daniel Mendez, Krzysztof Wnuk +2
Background: Code review, the discussion around a code change among humans, forms a communication network that enables its participants to exchange and spread information. Although…
Measuring Information Diffusion in Code Review at Spotify
Michael Dorner, Daniel Mendez, Ehsan Zabardast +2
Background: As a core practice in software engineering, the nature of code review has been frequently subject to research. Prior exploratory studies found that code review, the dis…