EASE 2023
Tue 13 - Fri 16 June 2023 Oulu, Finland
Thu 15 Jun 2023 14:50 - 15:00 at Aurora Hall - Software Testing and Analysis Chair(s): Davide Taibi

Popular modern code review tools (e.g. Gerrit and GitHub) sort files in a code review in alphabetical order. A prior study (on open-source projects) shows that the changed files’ positions in the code review affect the review process. Their results show that files placed lower in the order have less chance of receiving reviewing efforts than the other files. Hence, there is a higher chance of missing defects in these files. This paper explores the impact of file order in the code review of the well-known industrial project IntelliJ IDEA. First, we verify the results of the prior study on a big proprietary software project. Then, we explore an alternative to the default Alphabetical order: ordering changed files according to their code diff. Our results confirm the observations of the previous study. We discover that reviewers leave more comments on the files shown higher in the code review. Moreover, these results show that, even with the data skewed toward Alphabetical order, ordering changed files according to their code diff performs better than standard Alphabetical order regarding placing problematic files, which needs more reviewing effort, in the code review. These results confirm that exploring various ordering strategies for code review needs more exploration.

Thu 15 Jun

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13:30 - 15:00
Software Testing and AnalysisResearch (Full Papers) / Industry / Journal First / EASIER at Aurora Hall
Chair(s): Davide Taibi University of Oulu
13:30
20m
Paper
Analyzing Bug Life Cycles to Derive Practical Insights
Research (Full Papers)
Çağrı Eren , Kerem Şahin Bilkent University, Eray Tüzün Bilkent University
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13:50
10m
Paper
Automating Microservices Test Failure Analysis using Kubernetes Cluster LogsIndustry Experience Report
Industry
Pawan Kumar Sarika Ericsson AB, Deepika Badampudi Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sai Prashanth Josyula Blekinge institute of technology, Muhammad Usman Blekinge Institute of Technology
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14:00
20m
Paper
HornFuzz: Fuzzing CHC solvers
Research (Full Papers)
Anzhela Sukhanova Saint-Petersburg State University, Valentyn Sobol
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14:20
10m
Paper
Distributed state model inference for scriptless GUI testing
Journal First
Fernando Pastor Ricós Universitat Politècnica de València, Arend Slomp Open Universiteit, Beatriz Marín Universitat Politècnica de València, Pekka Aho Nordic Semiconductor, Tanja E. J. Vos
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14:30
10m
Paper
Aggregating N-fold Requirements Inspection Results
EASIER
Marian Daun Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Jennifer Brings
Link to publication
14:40
10m
Paper
U Owns the Code That Changes and How Marginal Owners Resolve Issues Slower in Low-Quality Source Code
EASIER
Markus Borg CodeScene, Adam Tornhill Empear AB
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14:50
10m
Paper
Assessing the Impact of File Ordering Strategies on Code Review ProcessIndustry Perspective Paper
Industry
Farid Bagirov JetBrains Research, Pouria Derakhshanfar JetBrains Research, Alexey Kalina JetBrains, Elena Kartysheva JetBrains, Vladimir Kovalenko JetBrains Research
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