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The ability to manage change is important in software engineering organizations, where rapid progress in technologies and constantly evolving methodologies create a turbulent environment. Research has identified employees' attitudes towards organizational change as a key factor in the change process. Nonetheless, few studies exist that explore such attitudes in a software engineering context. The...
Personality traits influence most, if not all, of the human activities, from those as natural as the way people walk, talk, dress and write to those most complex as the way they interact with others. Most importantly, personality influences the way people make decisions including, in the case of developers, the criteria they consider when selecting a software project they want to participate. Most...
In this paper we present the results from a survey about the beliefs, practices, and personalities of software engineers in a large software company. The survey received 797 responses. We report statistics about beliefs of software engineers, their work practices, as well as differences in those with respect to personality traits.For example, we observed no personality differences between developers...
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that loosely-coupled developers will develop a loosely-coupled software system. However, empirical studies have brought confusing results about the mirroring relationship in open source software (OSS) production: loosely-coupled OSS contributors have developed a tightly-coupled system, deviating from theoretical prediction, but are still successful. This study aims...
Context: In software project management, the decision-making process is a complex set of tasks largely based on specific knowledge and individual cultural background, as well as human relations. The factors that affect the decisions of the software project managers (SPMs) and their potential consequences require attention because project delays and failures are usually related to a series of poor...
Team-based student projects in beginning software engineering courses are often the first place that students have tried working on a team to develop a shared software product. For this reason, team coordination and communication skills are probably very important to their team success. We have access and experience with a research training game named TeC, developed to improve team coordination in...
Linting tools automatically identify source code fragments that do not follow a set of predefined standards. Such feedback tools are equally desirable for "linting" agile development processes. However, providing concrete feedback on process conformance is a challenging task, due to the intentional lack of formal agile process models. In this paper, we present ScrumLint, a tool that tackles...
Background: Coding Dojo Randori is a collaborative practice of joint training (with discussion). Objective: Evaluate Randori training behaviors. Method: Qualitative data analysis of recordings of Randori sessions. Results: (1) The training may involve different levels of collaboration, from a task level to a concept level. (2) Randori can help novices via the interaction with more experienced developers...
Requirements gathering are an important aspect of application development, especially when users are people with special needs. Traditionally, this process is being conducted using conventional methods, such as interviews, workshops and questionnaires. These approaches, however, are unable to grasp the full context when collecting data from the communities of people with special needs, mainly because...
In this paper, we describe the practical considerations and challenges of studying an agile, co-located software development community by assimilating among them over many months. We have adopted a fully immersive ethnographic approach using semistructured and unstructured interviews. In many ways, the design choices in our study mirrored those faced by the development team, as we adjusted our methods...
It is widely recognized that human factors are critical for successful Software Engineering. Recent research in this field provides insights on what are these factors are and how they affect Software Engineering productivity. How- ever knowing challenges is not enough; it is important to elaborate on how it will be possible to address them. This paper focuses on sociodrama as a technique which helps...
Animations are an essential part of many modern user interfaces. They are often defined programmatically, which allows for parametrization and reuse. Two programming paradigms to define animations are common: Procedural animation programming allows the developer to make explicit updates to object properties at each frame, allowing maximum control over behavior. Declarative animation programming allows...
Due to non-experts also developing security relevant applications it is necessary to support them too. Some improvements in the current research may not reach or impact these developers. Nonetheless these developers use security libraries. There are findings that even their usage is not easily possible and applications are left vulnerable to supposedly treated threats. So it is important to improve...
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