ASE 2024
Sun 27 October - Fri 1 November 2024 Sacramento, California, United States
Thu 31 Oct 2024 10:30 - 10:45 at Camellia - Release engineering Chair(s): Parnian Kamran

Peer code review has become a must-have in modern software development. However, many code review requests (CRRs) could be a backlog for large-scale and active projects, blocking continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Prioritizing CRRs to make the relevant ones to be reviewed first is a critical method for addressing this issue. Early studies have shown that many factors can impact the review priority of a CRR, including its properties and relationships with others. However, the relationships, e.g., modifying the same files and sharing the same authors, are rarely considered when developing CRR prioritizers. In this paper, we propose a \underline{\textbf{G}}raph-\underline{\textbf{P}}owered \underline{\textbf{P}}rioritizer (namely \textbf{GPP}) to make full use of the properties and relationships of CRRs. GPP uses the multigraph structure to develop an initial representation of a set of CRRs and uses the graph neural network algorithm to learn the prioritization-adapted representation, and eventually, outputs an ordered list of CRRs based on it. With experimental evaluation, we define relevant CRRs in the context of CI/CD as those that are likely to achieve three objectives, i.e., being \emph{merged} while undergoing a few \emph{iterations} in a short \emph{duration}. We compare GPP against two rule-based and six learning-based prioritizers on 15 open-source software projects with more than 420K CRRs. The experimental results indicate that GPP outperforms the baselines over three basic ranking-aware evaluation metrics including NDCG (82.94%), MRR (36.52%), and MAP (63.80%); while bringing benefits in recommending best-match CRRs and balancing multiple objectives.\ \textbf{Data&materials:} \url{https://figshare.com/s/133f23da558b7b254041}

Thu 31 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Release engineeringResearch Papers / NIER Track / Industry Showcase at Camellia
Chair(s): Parnian Kamran University of California, Davis
10:30
15m
Talk
GPP: A Graph-Powered Prioritizer for Code Review Requests
Research Papers
Lanxin Yang Nanjing University, Jinwei Xu Nanjing University, He Zhang Nanjing University, Fanghao Wu Nanjing University, Jun Lyu Nanjing University, Yue Li Nanjing University, Alberto Bacchelli University of Zurich
10:45
15m
Talk
Understanding Developer-Analyzer Interactions in Code Reviews
Industry Showcase
Martin Schäf Amazon Web Services, Berk Cirisci Amazon Web Services, Linghui Luo Amazon Web Services, Muhammad Numair Mansur Amazon Web Services, Omer Tripp Amazon Web Services, Daniel J Sanchez Amazon Alexa, Qiang Zhou Amazon Web Services, Muhammad Bilal Zafar Amazon Web Services
11:00
15m
Talk
Understanding the Implications of Changes to Build Systems
Research Papers
Mahtab Nejati University of Waterloo, Mahmoud Alfadel University of Calgary, Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo
DOI Pre-print
11:15
15m
Talk
Developer-Defined Accelerations in Continuous Integration: A Detection Approach and Catalog of Patterns
Research Papers
Mingyang Yin University of Waterloo, Yutaro Kashiwa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Keheliya Gallaba Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei Canada, Mahmoud Alfadel University of Calgary, Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University, Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo
DOI Pre-print
11:30
10m
Talk
Towards Automated Configuration Documentation
NIER Track
Jobayer Ahmmed Iowa State University, Myra Cohen Iowa State University, Paul Gazzillo University of Central Florida
DOI Pre-print
11:40
10m
Talk
Unity Is Strength: Collaborative LLM-Based Agents for Code Reviewer Recommendation
NIER Track
Luqiao Wang Xidian University, Yangtao Zhou Xidian University, Huiying Zhuang Xidian University, Qingshan Li Xidian University, Di Cui Xidian University, Yutong Zhao University of Central Missouri, Lu Wang Xidian University
11:50
10m
Talk
Build Issue Resolution from the Perspective of Non-Contributors
NIER Track
Sunzhou Huang The University of Texas at San Antonio, Xiaoyin Wang University of Texas at San Antonio
DOI Pre-print