scholarly journals Opinion Analysis of Software Developers Working Onsite on Public Sector Software Projects: An Exploratory Study

2019 ◽  
pp. 391-398
Author(s):  
Doğancan Köseoğlu ◽  
Oumout Chouseinoglou
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Opinion Analysis

scholarly journals Software Developers’ Work Habits and Expertise: Empirical Studies on Sketching, Code Plagiarism, and Expertise Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Sebastian Baltes
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Expertise Development ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Stack Overflow ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Work Habits ◽  
Novel Theory

AbstractAnalyzing and understanding software developers’ work habits and resulting needs is an essential prerequisite to improve software development practice. In our research, we utilize different qualitative and quantitative research methods to empirically investigate three underexplored aspects of software development: First, we analyze how software developers use sketches and diagrams in their daily work and derive requirements for better tool support. Then, we explore to what degree developers copy code from the popular online platform Stack Overflow without adhering to license requirements and motivate why this behavior may lead to legal issues for affected open source software projects. Finally, we describe a novel theory of software development expertise and identify factors fostering or hindering the formation of such expertise. Besides, we report on methodological implications of our research and present the open dataset SOTorrent, which supports researchers in analyzing the origin, evolution, and usage of content on Stack Overflow. The common goal for all studies we conducted was to better understand software developers’ work practices. Our findings support researchers and practitioners in making data-informed decisions when developing new tools or improving processes related to either the specific work habits we studied or expertise development in general.

How COVID-19 Pandemic affects Software Developers’ Wellbeing: An Exploratory Study in the West Border Area of Mexico-USA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reyes Juarez-Ramirez ◽  
Christian X. Navarro ◽  
Veronica Tapia-Ibarra ◽  
Samantha Jimenez ◽  
Cesar Guerra-Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
The West ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Border Area

An Analysis of Employer Perceptions of Business Graduate Competencies

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Adnan Iqbal ◽  
Lawton Hakaraia
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Employer Perceptions ◽  
Work Perceptions

This exploratory study assesses employers' perceptions of the importance and competence levels of performing identified graduates' competencies in the New Zealand public sector. The tertiary education institutions in New Zealand are facing increasing demands from employers and stakeholders. The employers demand that the educational institutions today should provide relevant skillset needed by the current organisations. What kind of skillsets required by employers and what institutes are offering to their graduates, however, are yet to be determined. This study attempts to fill the gap in the literature by examining this in the New Zealand public sector. Therefore, this study will determine what employers' work perceptions are regarding skills needed versus what skills graduates actually bring to the workplace.

scholarly journals Boa: a link between worlds

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Romansky ◽  
Sadegh Charmchi ◽  
Abram Hindle
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Topic Analysis ◽  
Platform As A Service ◽  
Software Changes ◽  
The Web

The business models of software/platform as a service have contributed to developers dependence on the Internet. Developers can rapidly point each other and consumers to the newest software changes with the power of the hyper link. But, developers are not limited to referencing software changes to one another through the web. Other shared hypermedia might include links to: Stack Overflow, Twitter, and issue trackers. This work explores the software traceability of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) which software developers leave in commit messages and software repositories. URLs are easily extracted from commit messages and source code. Therefore, it would be useful to researchers if URLs provide additional insight on project development. To assess traceability, manual topic labelling is evaluated against automated topic labelling on URL data sets. This work also shows differences between URL data collected from commit messages versus URL data collected from source code. As well, this work explores outlying software projects with many URLs in case these projects do not provide meaningful software relationship information. Results from manual topic labelling show promise under evaluation while automated topic labelling did not yield precise topics. Further investigation of manual and automated topic analysis would be useful.

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