On The Impact of Merge Request Deviations on Code Review Practices

Code review is a key practice in software engineering, ensuring quality and collaboration. However, industrial Merge Request (MR) workflows often deviate from standardized review processes, with many MRs serving non-review purposes (e.g., drafts, rebases, or dependency updates). We term these cases deviations and hypothesize that ignoring them biases analytics and undermines ML models for review analysis.

@article{kansab2025_2506.08860,
  title={ On The Impact of Merge Request Deviations on Code Review Practices },
  author={ Samah Kansab and Francis Bordeleau and Ali Tizghadam },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.08860},
  year={ 2025 }
}