Title
Quid Pro Quo: An Exploration of Reciprocity in Code Review
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
The Open University
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
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.
Start page
738
End page
740
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85134040386
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings - 2022 Mining Software Repositories Conference, MSR 2022
ISBN of the container
978-145039303-4
Conference
2022 Mining Software Repositories Conference, MSR 2022
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant numbers EP/V026747/1, EP/R013144/1].
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