“Larger pull requests lead to longer delays which lead to more time to make changes which leads to larger pull requests.”

Claim by @kentbeck that can be empirically tested with repository mining research. Not aware of papers that look at such reinforcement loops.

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/thinking-about-code-review

@seresearchers #codereview #PullRequests #MiningSoftwareRepositories #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering

For this tool, we transferred empirical data from the Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering initiative. NaPiRE is a (open data) endeavour by the research community and constitutes a globally distributed, bi-yearly family of surveys on practices and problems in RE. Researchers in RE might find this maybe useful :) 👉 http://www.napire.org/#/explore

#RequirementsEngineering #QuickCheck #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering #OpenData