scholarly journals Barriers Faced by Women in Software Development Projects

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Edna Dias Canedo ◽  
Heloise Acco Tives ◽  
Madianita Bogo Marioti ◽  
Fabiano Fagundes ◽  
José Antonio Siqueira de Cerqueira
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Workplace Conditions

Computer science is a predominantly male field of study. Women face barriers while trying to insert themselves in the study of computer science. Those barriers extend to when women are exposed to the professional area of computer science. Despite decades of social fights for gender equity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education and in computer science in general, few women participate in computer science, and some of the reasons include gender bias and lack of support for women when choosing a computer science career. Open source software development has been increasingly used by companies seeking the competitive advantages gained by team diversity. This diversification of the characteristics of team members includes, for example, the age of the participants, the level of experience, education and knowledge in the area, and their gender. In open source software projects women are underrepresented and a series of biases are involved in their participation. This paper conducts a systematic literature review with the objective of finding factors that could assist in increasing women’s interest in contributing to open source communities and software development projects. The main contributions of this paper are: (i) identification of factors that cause women’s lack of interest (engagement), (ii) possible solutions to increase the engagement of this public, (iii) to outline the profile of professional women who are participating in open source software projects and software development projects. The main findings of this research reveal that women are underrepresented in software development projects and in open source software projects. They represent less than 10% of the total developers and the main causes of this underrepresentation may be associated with their workplace conditions, which reflect male gender bias.

The Effects of Communication Patterns on the Success of Open Source Software Projects

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wu ◽  
Khim-Yong Goh ◽  
He Li ◽  
Chuan Luo ◽  
Haichao Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Estimation Model ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Model Following ◽  
Time Period

Drawing on the theoretical lens of communication patterns in organizational theory, this research analyzed the longitudinal success of open source software (OSS) projects by employing social network analysis method, based on extensive analyses of empirical data. This study is expected to provide an understanding on how communication patterns established in different roles and different levels. The authors not only measured OSS success from both developers and users' perspectives, but also extended the existing research by including the potential relationships among these success measures in the estimation model. Following the panel data econometric analysis methodology, they evaluated their research hypotheses using the Three-Stage Least Squares model, accounting for both time-period and project fixed effects. The authors' results indicated that according to the objectives of projects, a proper and planned control for the communication among team members is crucial for the success of OSS projects.

Comparative Analysis of Social Media Tool Used in Software Projects Deploying Virtual Teams

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debarshi Mukherjee ◽  
Nidhi S. Natrajan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Collaborative Tools ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
User Friendly

The social media tools available at public platform are soon becoming as user friendly and cost effective way of corporate communication. It has become a new way of collaborating among the team members of virtual teams deployed in software development projects. The open culture offered by these platforms helps business in general and software development projects in specific to accelerate growth through innovation, communication and active participation of the employees in their workplace. The study aims at comparing the four social media tools namely Facebook, blog, google plus and enterprise collaborative tools. The tools can be chosen from the long list as per the need of the task in the project.

scholarly journals Characterization and Classification of Collaborative Tools

2009 ◽  
pp. 361-370
Author(s):  
Javier Soriano ◽  
Rafael Fernández ◽  
Miguel Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Work Teams ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Open Source Software Development ◽  
Collaborative Tools ◽  
Software Product

Traditionally, collaboration has been a means for organizations to do their work. However, the context in which they do this work is changing, especially in regards to where the work is done, how the work is organized, who does the work, and with this the characteristics of collaboration. Software development is no exception; it is itself a collaborative effort that is likewise affected by these changes. In the context of both open source software development projects and communities and organizations that develop corporate products, more and more developers need to communicate and liaise with colleagues in geographically distant places about the software product they are conceiving, designing, building, testing, debugging, deploying and maintaining. Thus, work teams face sizeable collaborative challenges, for which they have need of tools that they can use to communicate and coordinate their work efficiently.

COLLABORATION STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE IN NEW SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: FINDINGS FROM THE STUDY OF OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (05) ◽  
pp. 735-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
JORGE A. COLAZO
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Open Source ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Efficient Frontier ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Team Members ◽  
New Product Development Teams ◽  
And Performance

The state of software development performance is far from being exemplar, with a success rate well below that of other industries, and understanding how to improve these projects is not only substantive but urgent. Software development is at most times a collaborative effort, yet we do not understand clearly how different collaboration structures associate with development performance metrics. This paper empirically examines the association between collaboration patterns, project productivity and product quality through a field study of working software open source new product development teams, using archival data from electronic sources related to Open Source Software projects. Collaboration structures are measured using Social Network Analysis and in terms of their network density, network centralization and the level of boundary spanning activity of team members. Productivity and quality are measured using "hard", code-based metrics. Results of regression analyses testing relevant hypotheses suggest that project managers need to strongly encourage internal collaboration, but be wary of allowing team members to participate in multiple projects. The breadth of skills within the team is a tactical asset that may increase the efficient frontier in the quality–productivity trade-off. Results also show that centralized structures associate with higher product quality and development productivity.

Intellectual Property Rights in Open Source Software Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 285-290
Author(s):  
Chitu Okoli ◽  
Kevin Carillo
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Source Model ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Development Model

Intellectual property is an old concept, with the first recorded instances of patents (1449) and copyrights (1662) both occurring in England (“Intellectual property”, Wikipedia, 2004). The first piece of software was submitted for copyright to the United States Copyright Office in 1961, and was accepted as copyrightable under existing copyright law (Hollaar, 2002). The open source movement has relied upon controversial intellectual property rights that are rooted in the overall history of software development (Lerner & Tirole, 2002; von Hippel & von Krogh, 2003). By defining specific legal mechanisms and designing various software licenses, the open source phenomenon has successfully proposed an alternative software development model whose approach to the concept of intellectual property is quite different from that taken by traditional proprietary software. A separate article in this encyclopedia treats open source software communities in general as a type of virtual community. This article takes a historical approach to examining how the intellectual property rights that have protected free/open source software have contributed towards the formation and evolution of virtual communities whose central focus is software projects based on the open source model.

scholarly journals Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry through Students’ Contributions to the FIWARE European Open-Source Initiative: A Pilot Study

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 1523
Author(s):  
Javier Conde ◽  
Sonsoles López-Pernas ◽  
Alejandro Pozo ◽  
Andres Munoz-Arcentales ◽  
Gabriel Huecas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Recent Graduates

Although many courses in computer science and software engineering require students to work on practical assignments, these are usually toy projects that do not come close to real professional developments. As such, recent graduates often fail to meet industry expectations when they first enter the workforce. In view of the gap between graduates’ skills and industry expectations, several institutions have resorted to integrating open-source software development as part of their programs. In this pilot study, we report on the results of the contributions of eleven students to the FIWARE open-source project as part of their final year project. Our findings suggest that both teachers and students have a positive perception towards contributing to the FIWARE open-source initiative and that students increased their knowledge of technologies valued by the industry. We also found that this kind of project requires an additional initial effort for the students as well as for the instructor to monitor their progress. Consequently, it is important that the instructors have previous experience in FIWARE, as many of the students need help during the process.

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