ZEST

ZEST is the Zurich Empirical Software engineering Team within the Department of Informatics @uzh_ifi at the University of Zurich (@uzh_news_en)

[Larissa Braz @larissabrazb]

@EnFregnan is now presenting our paper “First Come First Served: The Impact of File Position on Code Review” at @FSEconf 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[FSE 2026 @FSEconf]

Congratulations to Enrico Fregnan, Larissa Braz, Marco D'Ambros, Gül Calikli, Alberto Bacchelli for their paper being selected as one of the seven @sigsoft Distinguished Paper awards at @FSEconf https://t.co/f0SXJTBZ4w

[ZEST @ZESTuzh]

Would you like to help improve the code review process? If so, please consider participating in our new experiment!
It takes around 20-30 minutes and, as a token of appreciation, we will donate 5 USD to a charity of your choice!

Link: https://t.co/hXi0QL4lxq

[Lukas @Lukas37118701]

Hi. We developed a web application to investigate ways to improve code review. If you have javascript knowledge, please help us by participating in this 20-30min experiment:
https://t.co/2JJCWodhX6
To thank you, we will donate 5 USD to the charity of your choice.

[Lukas @Lukas37118701]

Hi. We developed a web application to investigate ways to improve code review. If you have javascript knowledge, please help us by participating in this 20-30min experiment:
https://t.co/2JJCWodhX6
To thank you, we will donate 5 USD to the charity of your choice.

[Enrico Fregnan @EnFregnan]

Great news! Our paper “First come first served: the impact of file position on code review” (https://t.co/hKUuqZbWGB) was selected as one of the distinguished papers at FSE 2022! 🎉🎉🎉
Congrats and thanks to all the authors @larissabrazb @marquitodambros @GulCalikli @sback_

[Pavlína Wurzel Gonçalves @WPavlina]

I am grateful the Swiss Research Magazine Horizons chose to write about our study. Novice reviewers required step-by-step checklist aid in simpler code reviews but needed more autonomy to perform better in a complex review. https://t.co/I2FlZknAtI @EnFregnan @sback_ @tb_luh

[Larissa Braz @larissabrazb]

What a nice way to end the week! Our paper “An Exploratory Study on Regression Vulnerabilities “ has been accepted at @ESEM_conf ! Congrats to @EnFregnan @_VivekArora_ and @sback_ !! 🎊🎊

[Enrico Fregnan @EnFregnan]

Amazing news, our paper "First Come First Served: The Impact of File Position on Code Review" has been accepted at FSE! Congrats to all the authors @larissabrazb @GulCalikli @marquitodambros and @sback_ )
A short summary of the paper in the thread below😁

[Larissa Braz @larissabrazb]

Happy to share that our paper "Software Security during Modern Code Review: The Developer's Perspective" has been accepted at @FSEconf! Congrats to the coauthor @sback_!! 🎉

[Andy Zaidman @azaidman]

Alberto Bacchelli (@sback_) presenting “Code Review Effectiveness: How code review works (and doesn’t) in the real world), see: https://t.co/ZINMnxSr5m

[Enrico Fregnan @EnFregnan]

Hi! We are doing an experiment to improve code review. If you develop in Java, please consider taking part in it. In the experiment we will ask you do to one code review.
You can access the experiment here: https://t.co/E01jHQ0GCa
To thank you, we will donate 5 USD to charity!

[Larissa Braz @larissabrazb]

Hi!! We are investigating ways to improve code review. If you are a developer with code review experience, please help us by participating in this survey: https://t.co/uonJ3Cu0H4
To thank you, we will donate 2 USD to a charity of your choice!

[Alberto Bacchelli @sback_]

In 2019-21, we run several studies, only possible with the contribution of many participants. To thank them, we offered to make donations to nonprofit orgs. Thanks to their contributions, these orgs received more than 3,400 USD!

More thanks and details: https://t.co/jA1RtvEzlC

[Enrico Fregnan @EnFregnan]

Great news to start the year with, our paper "Do Explicit Review Strategies Improve Code Review Performance? Towards Understanding the Role of Cognitive Load" has been accepted for publication at EMSE!
Congrats to all the authors! (@WPavlina, @tb_luh, Kurt Schneider @sback) 1/n

[s.e.a.l. @sealuzh]

Hey! We at @sealuzh and @ZESTuzh are looking for new Ph.D. students and postdocs for a range of software engineering topics in the UZH Software Lab at the University of Zurich.

If you are interested, you find more information here: https://t.co/kp84OhC9Lj

[Pavlína Wurzel Gonçalves @WPavlina]

Our paper Interpersonal Conflicts During Code Review - Developers’ Experience and Practices got accepted at CSCW! The article will be available at the beginning of the year. Thanks for the collaboration, @GulCalikli, and @sback_!

[Larissa Braz @larissabrazb]

Our paper “Supporting Developers in Vulnerability Detection during Code Review” has been accepted at @ICSEconf!! Congrats @Abendmusic @sback_ and @GulCalikli 🎉🎉🎉

Preprint will be available soon!!

Replication package and abstract can be found here:
https://t.co/dxZK84wOn4

[Larissa Braz @larissabrazb]

We are still looking for participants! If you have some Java knowledge please consider participating in our experiment:
https://t.co/Ni0UkXFxty
We will donate 5 USD to a non-profit organization on your behalf!

[Pavlína Wurzel Gonçalves @WPavlina]

I am looking for software developers who are currently doing code reviews. Please, consider participating in our survey about skills needed for efficient code reviews. Thank you! https://t.co/bDB7l1hheB

In collaboration with @GulCalikli @aserebrenik and @sback_

[Larissa Braz @larissabrazb]

Hi there! If you know Java and are willing to invest 20min in the science to improve code review, please participate in our experiment:
https://t.co/Ni0UkXFxty
We will donate 5 USD to a non-profit organization on your behalf!