This program is tentative and subject to change.
Sun 27 Apr 2025 16:40 - 16:50 at 210 - Responsible SE Session / Day 1 Closing Chair(s): Ronnie de Souza Santos
- Background: Current state-of-the-art established that cognitive biases appear during code review. They significantly impact the creation of feedback and how developers interpret it. These biases can lead to illogical reasoning and decision-making, violating one of the main hypotheses supporting code review: developers’ accurate and objective code evaluation.
- Objective: This paper explores harmful cases caused by cognitive biases during code review and potential solutions to avoid such cases or mitigate their effects.
- Method: We design several prototypes covering confirmation bias and decision fatigue. We rely on a developer-centered design approach by conducting usability tests and validating the prototype with a user experience questionnaire (UEQ) and participants’ feedback.
- Results: Our interim findings show that some techniques could be implemented in existing code review tools as reviewers will accept them and help prevent behavior detrimental to code review.
- Conclusion: This work provides a first approach to treating cognitive bias in code review. The developed prototypes will evolve into fully functional tools, with an extensive evaluation with developers.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Sun 27 AprDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
Sun 27 Apr
Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
16:00 - 17:30 | Responsible SE Session / Day 1 ClosingResearch Track at 210 Chair(s): Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary | ||
16:00 15mTalk | Irresponsibility Killed the Cat: Software Accountability Concerns Research Track Aria Zegers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Natalie Preciado Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Jan Duchnowski Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Fernanda Madeiral Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Emitzá Guzmán Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | ||
16:15 15mTalk | In Defence of Collaboration Ecosystems: Addressing Critical Collaboration Elements, Cognitive Biases, and the Role of Technology Research Track Larry Abdullai LUT University, Kseniia Perova LUT University, Jari Porras LUT University , Sanaul Haque LUT University, Ekaterina Albats LUT University, Stefanie Kunkel Research Institute for Sustainabiltiy (RIFS) Helmholtz Centre Potsdam | ||
16:30 10mTalk | Creative Problem-Solving: A Study with Blind and Low Vision Software Professionals Research Track Karina Kohl UFRGS, Yoonha Cha University of California, Irvine, Victoria Jackson University of California, Irvine, Rafael Prikladnicki School of Technology at PUCRS University, Andre van der Hoek University of California, Irvine, Stacy Branham University of California, Irvine | ||
16:40 10mTalk | Towards debiasing code review support Research Track Tobias Jetzen University of Namur, Xavier Devroey University of Namur, Nicolas Matton University of Namur, Benoît Vanderose University of Namur Pre-print | ||
16:50 10mTalk | The Good, the Bad, and the (Un)Usable: A Rapid Literature Review on Privacy as Code Research Track Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra Hamburg University of Technology, Sirine Khelifi Hamburg University of Technology, Nalin Arachchilage RMIT University, Riccardo Scandariato Hamburg University of Technology | ||
17:00 10mTalk | Inequity in Software Engineering: Looks that Matter Research Track Mary Sánchez-Gordón Østfold University College, Rahul Mohanani University of Jyväskylä, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | ||
17:10 10mTalk | Lost in Transition: The Struggle of Women Returning to Software Engineering Research after Career Breaks Research Track | ||
17:20 10mTalk | Day 1 Closing Research Track | ||