When testing meets code review

Davide Spadini, Maurício Aniche, Margaret-Anne Storey, Magiel Bruntink, Alberto Bacchelli

Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2018. DOI 10.1145/3180155.3180192

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 successful. The earliest on record is from 2026.

Replications

Test Code Review in the Era of GitHub Actions: A Replication Study, Sun et al. (2026). arXiv. Outcome recorded: successful. This study presents a replication and extension of the original study (Spadini et al. 2018) by examining a broader range of projects on GitHub, the most representative platform of the PR review model. The results for RQ1 confirm that reviewers primarily focus on production code, though this tendency is somewhat mitigated on GitHub compared to other platforms. Outcome read from Discussion, p. 22. View paper

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Spadini, D., Aniche, M., Storey, M.-A., Bruntink, M., & Bacchelli, A. (2018). When testing meets code review. Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, 677–687. https://doi.org/10.1145/3180155.3180192

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