Support, Not Automation: Towards AI-supported Code Review for Code Quality and Beyond
Code review is a well-established and valuable software development practice associated with code quality, interpersonal, and team benefits. However, it is also time-consuming, with developers spending 10-20% of their working time doing code reviews. With recent advances in AI capabilities, there are more and more initiatives aimed at fully automating code reviews to save time and streamline software developer workflows.
However, while automated tools might succeed in maintaining the code quality, we risk losing interpersonal and team benefits such as knowledge transfer, shared code ownership, and team awareness. Instead of automating code review and losing these important benefits, we envision a code review platform where AI is used to support code review to increase benefits for both code quality and the development team.
We propose an AI agent-based architecture that collects and combines information to support the user throughout the code review and adapt the workflow to their needs. We analyze this design in relation to the benefits of code review and outline a research agenda aimed at realizing the proposed design.
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10:30 - 12:20 | Code Review, Build, and ReleaseIdeas, Visions and Reflections / Industry Papers / Demonstrations / Research Papers / Journal First at Aurora A Chair(s): Peter Rigby Concordia University; Meta | ||
10:30 10mTalk | From Overload to Insight: Bridging Code Search and Code Review with LLMs Ideas, Visions and Reflections Nikitha Rao Carnegie Mellon University, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University, Reid Holmes University of British Columbia | ||
10:40 20mTalk | Explaining Explanations: An Empirical Study of Explanations in Code Reviews Journal First Ratnadira Widyasari Singapore Management University, Singapore, Ting Zhang Singapore Management University, Abir Bouraffa University of Hamburg, Walid Maalej University of Hamburg, David Lo Singapore Management University | ||
11:00 10mTalk | Support, Not Automation: Towards AI-supported Code Review for Code Quality and Beyond Ideas, Visions and Reflections | ||
11:10 20mTalk | BitsAI-CR: Automated Code Review via LLM in Practice Industry Papers Tao Sun Beihang University, Jian Xu ByteDance, Yuanpeng Li ByteDance, Zhao Yan ByteDance, Ge Zhang ByteDance, Lintao Xie ByteDance, Lu Geng ByteDance, Zheng Wang University of Leeds, Yueyan Chen ByteDance, Qin Lin ByteDance, Wenbo Duan ByteDance, Kaixin Sui ByteDance, Yuanshuo Zhu ByteDance | ||
11:30 10mTalk | Visualising Developer Interactions in Code Reviews Demonstrations | ||
11:40 20mTalk | CXXCrafter: An LLM-Based Agent for Automated C/C++ Open Source Software Building Research Papers Zhengmin Yu Fudan University, Yuan Zhang Fudan University, Ming Wen Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yinan Nie Fudan University, Zhang Wenhui Fudan University, Min Yang Fudan University DOI | ||
12:00 20mTalk | SmartNote: An LLM-Powered, Personalised Release Note Generator That Just Works Research Papers Farbod Daneshyan Peking University, Runzhi He Peking University, Jianyu Wu Peking University, Minghui Zhou Peking University DOI | ||
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