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Are Your Dependencies Code Reviewed?: Measuring Code Review Coverage in Dependency Updates

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2023

Nasif Imtiaz, Laurie Williams

Summary

Empirical study measures code-review coverage for dependency updates.

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Possible founder application

Add dependency-update review coverage and exception reporting to supply-chain tooling.

Reported result

What the study found

Empirical study measures code-review coverage for dependency updates.

Research question

What the authors investigated

How does the study’s stated design explain its reported outcome in this setting?

Design

Systematic/literature review

Sample and setting

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Scope and transfer

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