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Test-Driven Code Review: An Empirical Study

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2019
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Spadini, D., Palomba, F., Baum, T., Hanenberg, S., Bruntink, M., & Bacchelli, A. (2019). Test-Driven Code Review: An Empirical Study. 1061–1072. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2019.00110

Abstract

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Test-Driven Code Review (TDR) is a code review practice in which a reviewer inspects a patch by examining the changed test code before the changed production code. Although this practice has been mentioned positively by practitioners in informal literature and interviews, there is no systematic knowledge of its effects, prevalence, problems, and advantages. In this paper, we aim at empirically understanding whether this practice has an effect on code review effectiveness and how developers' perceive TDR. We conduct (i) a controlled ex

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  • Spadini, Davide
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  • Palomba, Fabio
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  • Baum, Tobias
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  • Hanenberg, Stefan
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  • Bruntink, Magiel
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  • Bacchelli, Alberto
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Event Title

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Event Title
2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

Event Location

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Event Location
Montreal

Event Country

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Event Country
QC, Canada

Event Start Date

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Event Start Date
2019-06-25

Event End Date

Event End Date

Event End Date
2019-07-01

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IEEE

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1061

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1072

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Scope

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2021-01-26

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978-1-7281-0869-8

OA Status

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Green

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merlin-id:20220

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10 since deposited on 2021-01-26
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3 since deposited on 2021-01-26
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Spadini, D., Palomba, F., Baum, T., Hanenberg, S., Bruntink, M., & Bacchelli, A. (2019). Test-Driven Code Review: An Empirical Study. 1061–1072. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2019.00110

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