Understanding the Implications of Changes to Build Systems
Mahtab Nejati, Mahmoud Alfadel, Shane McIntosh · 2024
The maintenance of build systems imposes a considerable overhead on software development. Since automated quality assurance methods are rarely applied to build specifications, the importance of the role peer code review plays in the maintenance of build systems is amplified. Yet prior work shows that the review process for build systems suffers from a lack of build experts and effective tooling.