TY - GEN
T1 - Quid Pro Quo
T2 - 2022 Mining Software Repositories Conference, MSR 2022
AU - Gavidia-Calderon, Carlos
AU - Han, Donggyun
AU - Bennaceur, Amel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 ACM.
PY - 2022/10/17
Y1 - 2022/10/17
N2 - We explore the role of reciprocity in code review processes. Reciprocity manifests itself in two ways: 1) reviewing code for others translates to accepted code contributions, and 2) having contributions accepted increases the reviews made for others. We use vector autoregressive (VAR) models to explore the causal relation between reviews performed and accepted contributions. After fitting VAR models for 24 active open-source developers, we found evidence of reciprocity in 6 of them. These results suggest reciprocity does play a role in code review, that can potentially be exploited to increase reviewer participation.
AB - We explore the role of reciprocity in code review processes. Reciprocity manifests itself in two ways: 1) reviewing code for others translates to accepted code contributions, and 2) having contributions accepted increases the reviews made for others. We use vector autoregressive (VAR) models to explore the causal relation between reviews performed and accepted contributions. After fitting VAR models for 24 active open-source developers, we found evidence of reciprocity in 6 of them. These results suggest reciprocity does play a role in code review, that can potentially be exploited to increase reviewer participation.
KW - code review
KW - collaboration
KW - time series analysis
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85134040386
U2 - 10.1145/3524842.3528522
DO - 10.1145/3524842.3528522
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85134040386
T3 - Proceedings - 2022 Mining Software Repositories Conference, MSR 2022
SP - 738
EP - 740
BT - Proceedings - 2022 Mining Software Repositories Conference, MSR 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 23 May 2022 through 24 May 2022
ER -