WIP: Leveraging Static Code Analysis for Peer Code Review in Computer Science Education

In this work-in-progress innovative practice paper we make - arguably for the first time - an effort for combining together two rich bodies of knowledge that have so far coexisted independently in computer science education research: static code analysis and peer code review. We achieve this by putting a sophisticated static code analysis system to work in a peer code review process implemented in an introductory computer science course for (1) matching reviewers based on the heterogeneity of their initial submissions and (2) analyzing the subsequent effects on resubmissions. We demonstrate the potential value of such usage and discuss the surprising trends we discovered, as well as broader ideas on leveraging static code analysis for peer code review in computer science education.