Source Code Review Study Materials from ICSME '17 Paper

Online material for the paper "On the Optimal Order of Reading Source Code Changes for Review" includes interview transcripts, survey results, and empirical navigation data. The materials were created by Tobias Baum for research presented at the ICSME 2017 conference. The collection contains code changes, analysis memos, and raw data from an instrumented review tool.

Use Cases

• Analyzing developer navigation patterns during code reviews based on the aggregated empirical navigation data.
• Studying qualitative feedback on code changes using the provided interview transcripts and memoing data.
• Replicating or extending survey-based studies on code review using the complete survey questions and raw results.

Strengths

• Contains multiple complementary data types, including qualitative interview transcripts and quantitative survey results.
• Includes the source code of analysis tools, which may support reproducibility of the research methodology.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Tobias Baum

Collection Method

Collected via interviews, surveys, and an instrumented code review tool for a research study.