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Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Schneider, Kurt Baum, Tobias Brack, Arthur Schauder, Jens Kortum, Fabian
Abstract	Code review in practice is often performed change-based, i.e. using the code changes belonging to a task to determine which code to review. In previous studies, it was found that two variations of this process are used in industry: Pre commit review (review-then-commit) and post commit review (commit-then-review). The choice for one of these variants has implications not only for practitioners deciding on a code review process to use, but also for the development of review tools and for experimentation with review processes. In some situations, a specific variant is clearly preferable due to the nature of the development process or team. In other situations, there are conflicting opinions, and both variants have proponents arguing for their method of choice. So we asked: Are there practically relevant performance differences between pre commit and post commit reviews, and how are these differences influenced by contextual factors? To assess this question, we designed a parametric discrete event simulation model of certain agile development processes. We validated this model with practitioner's feedback and in part also with empirical data from industry. Our analysis of the simulation results indicates that the best choice does depend on the context, but also that there are many situations with no practically relevant difference between both choices. We identified the main influencing factors and underlying effects and condensed our findings into heuristic rules.
Starting Page	26
Ending Page	35
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450341882
DOI	10.1145/2904354.2904362
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2016-05-14
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Code review Post commit review Agile software development Pre commit review Discrete event simulation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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