We’re thrilled to announce our first keynote speaker for #ICSME2025 - Prof. David Lo

Prof. Lo is a world-renowned researcher in software engineering, known for his impactful work on data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, and search-based algorithms.

πŸ”— More on our keynotes: https://conf.researchr.org/info/icsme-2025/keynotes

#SoftwareEngineering #MiningSoftwareRepositories #SEResearch #Keynote #ICSME2025

β€œLarger 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

Thinking About Code Review

Think about your team workflow. Then try what makes sense for your context. Then adjust. The most exciting words in engineering are, β€œIt turns out…”. A recent Twitter kerfuffle about the pull request team workflow happened to mention me. The last thing I want to do is to participate in another pissing contest about code reviews, but here I am.

Software Design: Tidy First?