Previous studies found that two variations of change-based code review are used in in- dustry: Pre commit review and post commit review. Which one is better in a given situation is not obvious. So we asked: Are there practically relevant performance differences between pre and post commit reviews? How are these differences ...

Code review is known to be an efficient quality assurance technique. Many software companies today use it, usually with a process similar to the patch review process in open source software development. However, there is still a large fraction of companies performing almost no code reviews at all. And the companies that ...