| # Mining Gerrit Data to Study Contentious Reviews and Community Evolution |
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| Software teams that use Gerrit are quickly accumulating data about their code |
| reviewing processes. The [Software REBELs](http://rebels.ece.mcgill.ca/)—a |
| research lab at McGill University—mine code review data to study topics like the |
| impact that code review practices have on software release and design quality. |
| Our more recent work mines code review data to study the reviewing process |
| itself. In this talk, I will describe the results of two empirical studies of |
| data that we collected from the Gerrit instances of the OpenStack project. The |
| first study aims to understand the reviews where reviewers disagree about a |
| patch. The second study follows how the concerns that reviewers raise evolve as |
| the OpenStack community ages and individual reviews accrue experience. |
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| *Shane McIntosh, McGill University* |
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| Shane McIntosh is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and |
| Computer Engineering at McGill University, where he leads the Software |
| Repository Excavation and Build Engineering Labs (Software REBELs). He received |
| his Bachelor's degree in Applied Computing from the University of Guelph and |
| his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Queen's University, for which he was |
| awarded the Governor General of Canada's Academic Gold Medal. In his research, |
| Shane uses empirical software engineering techniques to study software build |
| systems, release engineering, and software quality. More info about Shane and |
| the REBELs is available [online](http://rebels.ece.mcgill.ca/). |
