# kaal:claim:4734750-001

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- modern code review practice in industry and open source projects

**Source quote.**

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

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Code Review DAO* (2024), Background, page 5

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `60eadf91c0913468505afc664c8d8d1e1673d6c5326d031ca7060addb8ab2eda` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202024%20-%20Code%20Review%20DAO.pdf

**Topics.** open-source-and-code

**Keywords.** code-review, developer-productivity, review-cost, opportunity-cost

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-001

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