Everything about Automated code review

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Automated code reviewA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCRInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Tax administrationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A systematic literature review of actionable alert identification techniques for automated static code analysisCited 110 times
5. Go sideways: Static application security testingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Static program analysisA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A systematic literature review of actionable alert identification techniques for automated static code analysis

  Sarah Heckman, Laurie Williams · 2011 · Information and Software Technology · 110 citations

• Automated Code Assessment for Education: Review, Classification and Perspectives on Techniques and Tools

  Sébastien Combéfis · 2022 · Software · 62 citations

• Automated Code Review Tools for Security

  Gary McGraw · 2008 · Computer · 34 citations

• Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Improve Accuracy and Comprehensibility of Automated Code Review

  Yongda Yu, Guoping Rong, Haifeng Shen · 2024 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 33 citations

• The role of machine learning in automated code checking – a systematic literature review

  Maen Alnuzha, Tanya Bloch · 2025 · Journal of Information Technology in Construction · 15 citations

• A Systematic Review of Automated Query Reformulations in Source Code Search

  Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Chanchal K. Roy · 2023 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 12 citations

• Integrating building and context information for automated zoning code checking: a review

  M. Emre İlal, M. Emre İlal · 2022 · Journal of Information Technology in Construction · 9 citations

• A systematic review of methods for interpreting building code regulations in automated compliance systems

  Nikoo Mirhosseini, Davood Shojaei, Soheil Sabri · 2026 · Building Research & Information · 7 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR

  Jaydeb Sarker, Asif Kamal Turzo, Ming Dong · 2023 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 45 citations

• Automated Code Review Tool

  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science Engineering, D Y Patil College of Engineering and Technology(Autonomous), Kasaba Bawada , Kolhapur, Maharashtra., Mangave V. V. · 2024 · INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT · 5 citations

• Integrating AI-Driven Automated Code Review in Agile Development: Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices

  Saad Ahmed · 2025 · International Journal of Advanced Engineering, Management and Science · 3 citations

• Unveiling the power of code pre-trained models in automated program repair: A systematic review

  Shanggui Zhan, Xingqi Wang, Dan Wei · 2026 · Journal of Systems and Software · 2 citations

• The price of precision: the cost of preprocessing for automated code revision in code review

  Shirin Pirouzkhah, Pooja Rani, Francesco Sovrano · 2025 · Empirical Software Engineering · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Tax administrationUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1986
• Software EngineeringRoger S. Pressman, Bruce Maxim · 1982
• Objects first with JavaDavid J. Barnes, Michael Kolling · 2002
• Clinical practice of the dental hygienistEsther M. Wilkins · 1958
• Operations ManagementRoberta S. Russell, Bernard Taylor · 1998
• The web application hacker's handbookDafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto · 2007
• Dictionary of international tradeEdward G. Hinkelman, Edward Hinkelman · 1994
• Automate the Boring Stuff with PythonAl Sweigart · 2015

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