Title: Impact of Continuous Integration on Code Reviews,
Abstract: Peer code review and continuous integration often interleave with each other
in the modern software quality management. Although several studies investigate
how non-technical factors (e.g., reviewer workload), developer participation
and even patch size affect the code review process, the impact of continuous
integration on code reviews is not yet properly understood. In this paper, we
report an exploratory study using 578K automated build entries where we
investigate the impact of automated builds on the code reviews. Our
investigation suggests that successfully passed builds are more likely to
encourage new code review participation in a pull request. Frequently built
projects are found to be maintaining a steady level of reviewing activities
over the years, which was quite missing from the rarely built projects.
Experiments with 26,516 automated build entries reported that our proposed
model can identify 64% of the builds that triggered new code reviews later.