kaal:claim:4734750-001

Modern code review is expensive not only in direct reviewer time but in opportunity cost, because developers spend an average of six hours per week reviewing other people's changes and must switch away from their own work to do so.

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Developers spend a significant amount of time reviewing the changes of others

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Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024), Background, p. 5
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Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750

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modern code review practice in industry and open source projects

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