Code Review Practices for Refactoring Changes: An Empirical Study on OpenStack
Tue 24 May 2022 15:30 - 15:45 at Room 315+316 - Blended Technical Session 5 (Miscellaneous) Chair(s): Luís Cruz
Modern code review is a widely used technique employed in both industrial and open-source projects to improve software quality, share knowledge, and ensure adherence to coding standards and guidelines. During code review, developers may discuss refactoring activities before merging code changes in the codebase. To date, code review has been extensively studied to explore its general challenges, best practices and outcomes, and socio-technical aspects. However, little is known about how refactoring is being reviewed and what developers care about when they review refactored code. Hence, in this work, we present a quantitative and qualitative study to understand what are the main criteria developers rely on to develop a decision about accepting or rejecting a submitted refactored code, and what makes this process challenging. Through a case study of 11,010 refactoring and non-refactoring reviews spread across OpenStack open-source projects, we find that refactoring-related code reviews take significantly longer to be resolved in terms of code review efforts. Moreover, upon performing a thematic analysis on a significant sample of the refactoring code review discussions, we built a comprehensive taxonomy consisting of 28 refactoring review criteria in the context of MCR. We envision our findings reaffirming the necessity of developing accurate and efficient tools and techniques that can assist developers in the review process in the presence of refactorings.
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15:30 - 17:00 | Blended Technical Session 5 (Miscellaneous) Technical Papers / Data and Tool Showcase Track / Mining Challenge at Room 315+316 Chair(s): Luís Cruz Deflt University of Technology | ||
15:30 15mTalk | Code Review Practices for Refactoring Changes: An Empirical Study on OpenStack Technical Papers Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Moataz Chouchen ETS, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec Pre-print | ||
15:45 15mTalk | Painting the Landscape of Automotive Software in GitHub Technical Papers Sangeeth Kochanthara Eindhoven University of Technology, Yanja Dajsuren Eindhoven University of Technology, Loek Cleophas Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Stellenbosch University (SU), Mark van den Brand Eindhoven University of Technology Pre-print Media Attached | ||
16:00 8mTalk | SLNET: A Redistributable Corpus of 3rd-party Simulink Models Data and Tool Showcase Track Sohil Lal Shrestha The University of Texas at Arlington, Shafiul Azam Chowdhury University of Texas at Arlington, Christoph Csallner University of Texas at Arlington DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
16:08 8mTalk | SoCCMiner: A Source Code-Comments and Comment-Context Miner Data and Tool Showcase Track Murali Sridharan University of Oulu, Mika Mäntylä University of Oulu, Maëlick Claes University of Oulu, Leevi Rantala University of Oulu Pre-print | ||
16:16 8mTalk | An Exploratory Study on Refactoring Documentation in Issues Handling Mining Challenge Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec Pre-print | ||
16:24 8mTalk | Between JIRA and GitHub: ASFBot and its Influence on Human Comments in Issue Trackers Mining Challenge Ambarish Moharil Eindhoven University of Technology, Dmitrii Orlov Eindhoven University of Technology, Samar Jameel Eindhoven University of Technology, Tristan Trouwen Eindhoven University of Technology, Nathan Cassee Eindhoven University of Technology, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology Pre-print | ||
16:32 28mLive Q&A | Discussions and Q&A Technical Papers | ||