Developer experience · Systematic/literature review
Are Your Dependencies Code Reviewed?: Measuring Code Review Coverage in Dependency Updates
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2023
Summary
Empirical study measures code-review coverage for dependency updates.
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Add dependency-update review coverage and exception reporting to supply-chain tooling.
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What the study found
Empirical study measures code-review coverage for dependency updates.
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