Using nudges to accelerate code reviews at scale
Abstract
We describe a large-scale study to reduce the amount of time code review takes. Each quarter at Meta we survey developers. Combining sentiment data from a developer experience survey and telemetry data from our diff review tool, we address, “When does a diff review feel too slow?” From the sentiment data alone, we learn that 84.7% of developers are satisfied with the time their diffs spend in review. By enriching the survey results with telemetry for each respondent, we determined that sentiment is closely associated with the 75th percentile time in review for that respondent’s diffs, ie those that take more than 24 hours.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Shan-al:FSE22,
author = {Qianhua Shan and
David Sukhdeo and
Qianying Huang and
Seth Rogers and
Lawrence Chen and
Elise Paradis and
Peter C. Rigby and
Nachiappan Nagappan},
title = {Using nudges to accelerate code reviews at scale},
booktitle = {{ESEC/SIGSOFT} {FSE}},
pages = {472--482},
publisher = {{ACM}},
year = {2022},
}