WAP: Does Reviewer Age Affect Code Review Performance?

Murakami, Yukasa; Tsunoda, Masateru; Uwano, Hidetake

doi:10.1109/issre.2017.37

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Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

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“…Research has investigated the experience of "older" contributors in OSS [13,49,50]. For instance, Murakami et al [50] looked at how age can impact code reviews and found that age has no significant effect on code review correctness and efficiency. Morrison et al [49] investigated the low participation of veteran software developers in OSS and how their contributions differ from those of their younger peers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, studies have investigated the effects of location and language on getting contributions accepted [24,62,63]. Others have analyzed age diversity by analyzing its impact on code reviews [50], or motivations to continue to contribute [13,49]. The majority of research has focused on only one attribute of diversity, with a few emerging works extending the gender diversity analysis by incorporating another diversity attribute (e.g., location [53,57], cognitive style [54]).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Perceptions of the State of D&I and D&I Initiative in the ASF

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Open Source Software (OSS) Foundations and projects are investing in creating Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiatives. However, little is known about contributors' perceptions about the usefulness and success of such initiatives. We aim to close this gap by investigating how contributors perceive the state of D&I in their community. In collaboration with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), we surveyed 600+ OSS contributors and conducted 11 follow-up interviews. We used mixed methods to analyze our data-quantitative analysis of Likert-scale questions and qualitative analysis of openended survey question and the interviews to understand contributors' perceptions and critiques of the D&I initiative and how to improve it. Our results indicate that the ASF contributors felt that the state of D&I was still lacking, especially regarding gender, seniority, and English proficiency. Regarding the D&I initiative, some participants felt that the effort was unnecessary, while others agreed with the effort but critiqued its implementation. These findings show that D&I initiatives in OSS communities are a good start, but there is room for improvements. Our results can inspire the creation of new and the refinement of current initiatives.

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et al. 2022

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“…This SLR has found a few papers addressing age diversity in SE. These papers report that age diversity does not affect the team efficiency (Altiner and Ayhan 2018) or the performance of developers [SLR (Murakami et al 2017)]. However, some cultures may have stereotypes that damage both young and old developers in an industrial context [SLR (Schloegel et al 2018)].…”

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Perceived diversity in software engineering: a systematic literature review

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We define perceived diversity as the diversity factors that individuals are born with. Perceived diversity in Software Engineering has been recognized as a high-value team property and companies are willing to increase their efforts to create more diverse work teams. The current diversity state-of-the-art shows that gender diversity studies have been growing during the past decade, and they have shown the benefits of including women in software teams. However, less is known about how other perceived diversity factors such as race, nationality, disability, and age of developers are related to Software Engineering. Through a systematic literature review, we aim to clarify the research area concerned with perceived diversity in Software Engineering. Our goal is to identify (1) what issues have been studied and what results have been reported; (2) what methods, tools, models, and processes have been proposed to help perceived diversity issues; and (3) what limitations have been reported when studying perceived diversity in Software Engineering. Furthermore, our ultimate goal is to identify gaps in the current literature and create a call for future action in perceived diversity in Software Engineering. Our results indicate that the individual studies have typically had a gender diversity perspective focusing on showing gender bias or gender differences instead of developing methods and tools to mitigate the gender diversity issues faced in SE. Moreover, perceived diversity aspects related to SE participants' race, age, and disability need to be further analyzed in Software Engineering research. From our systematic literature review, we conclude that researchers need to consider a wider set of perceived diversity aspects for future research.

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“…The majority of the studies on MCR outcomes used data from OSS repositories, while five [29,3,34,21,18] of them collected information from commercial projects and two [30,78] from experiments. The results of these studies are discussed as follows.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review and Taxonomy of Modern Code Review

Davila,

Nunes

2021

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Context: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a widely known practice of software quality assurance. However, the existing body of knowledge of MCR is currently not understood as a whole. Objective: Our goal is to identify the state of the art on MCR, providing a structured overview and an in-depth analysis of the research done in this field. Method: We performed a systematic literature review, selecting publications from four digital libraries. Results: A total of 139 papers were selected and analyzed in three main categories. Foundational studies are those that analyze existing or collected data from the adoption of MCR. Proposals consist of techniques and tools to support MCR, while evaluations are studies to assess an approach or compare a set of them. Conclusion: The most represented category is foundational studies, mainly aiming to understand the motivations for adopting MCR, its challenges and benefits, and which influence factors lead to which MCR outcomes. The most common types of proposals are code reviewer recommender and support to code checking. Evaluations of MCR-supporting approaches have been done mostly offline, without involving human subjects. Five main research gaps have been identified, which point out directions for future work in the area.

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WAP: Does Reviewer Age Affect Code Review Performance?

Cited by 11 publications

References 12 publications

Perceptions of the State of D&I and D&I Initiative in the ASF

Perceptions of the State of D&I and D&I Initiative in the ASF

Perceived diversity in software engineering: a systematic literature review

A Systematic Literature Review and Taxonomy of Modern Code Review

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