Abstract
The practice of code reviews is fundamental for producing and maintaining high-quality source code. However, because it is not the most favourite and enjoyable task of a developer, it is still not acknowledged as the industry worldwide standard. The idea behind this research is to encourage developers by providing them with an accessible way to perform reviews by using mobile devices. This paper presents the results from the experiment-driven investigation aimed at comparative analysis of code reviews performed on a dedicated mobile tool and a desktop application. After comparing results from 79 mobile and 102 desktop reviews and analysing almost 2500 comments we claim that mobile devices can be used to effectively read, understand and review source code of any size.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the Dean’s Grant Programme (grant no. 15.11.230.289) funded by Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications at AGH University of Science and Technology.
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Frącz, W., Dajda, J. (2017). Experimental Validation of Source Code Reviews on Mobile Devices. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10408. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62404-4_40
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