Abstract: Code review has now become a mandatory practice in the software engineering workflow of many software organizations. While code review has been shown that it provides numerous benefits to the software teams, it is also considered expensive. Due to the manual and human-intensive nature of code review, it can delay the software development workflow. In this talk, I will summarize some of our work and others about how can we help developers perform effectively and what is the remaining challenges in code reviews that need to be addressed.

Patanamon Thongtanunam (or Pick) is an ARC DECRA Fellow and a lecturer at the School of Computing and Information System, The University of Melbourne. She received the D.E. degree (2016) in Information Science from Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. Her primary research goals are directed towards uncovering empirical evidence and extracting knowledge from data recorded in software repositories by using statistical analysis. The foundation for her PhD thesis has been published at International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), and International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER). More about Patanamon and her work is available online at http://patanamon.com/.