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   "text": "Modern code review imposes substantial hidden costs because developers spend an average of six hours per week reviewing others' changes and are forced to switch away from their own work, creating an opportunity cost on project development.",
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   "text": "Organizational metrics, such as the number of developers working on a component, organizational distance between developers, and organizational code ownership, are better predictors of defect proneness than traditional metrics like churn, complexity, coverage, dependencies, and pre release bug measures.",
   "abstract": "including the number of developers working on a component, organizational distance between developers, and organizational code ownership, are \"better predictors of defect-proneness than traditional metrics like churn, complexity, coverage, dependencies, and pre-release bug measures.\"45",
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