From Overload to Insight: Bridging Code Search and Code Review with LLMs
The software engineering (SE) research community has developed numerous tools to search and extract actionable insights from software artifacts, ranging from static analysis tools to testing frameworks and continuous integration pipelines (hereafter just ``search tools''). Despite their potential, many of these search tools remain underutilized during code review, a critical process for ensuring software quality. Key challenges include the overwhelming volume of information generated by automated tools, high false-positive rates, and the need for manual configuration or interpretation, which disrupts the flow of review. In this paper, we propose a vision for an LLM-powered conversational agent designed to assist code reviewers by bridging the gap between human reviewers and search tools. This agent would summarize relevant insights, tailor them to the specific code change under review, and facilitate context-aware interactions. By enhancing the human-in-the-loop nature of code review, such a tool has the potential to amplify reviewer effectiveness, streamline the review process, and ultimately improve software quality.
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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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