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ICGSE 2018
Sun 27 - Tue 29 May 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
co-located with * ICSE 2018 *
Tue 29 May 2018 15:45 - 16:05 at E2 room - Distinguished papers Chair(s): Darja Šmite

Large-scale distributed projects are typically the results of collective efforts performed by multiple developers, each one having a different personality. The study of developers’ personalities has the potential of explaining their’ behavior in various contexts. For example, the propensity to trust others, a critical factor to the success of global software engineering - has been found to influence positively the result of code reviews in distributed projects. In this paper, we perform a quantitative analysis of developers’ personality in open source software projects, intended as an extreme form of distributed projects in which no single organization controls the project. We mine ecosystem-level data from the code commits and email messages contributed by the developers working on the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects, as representative of large scale-distributed projects. We find that developers’ personality evolves over time as more conscientious, agreeable, and neurotic. Instead, personality traits do not vary with their role and extent of contribution to the projects. We also find evidence that more open and more agreeable developers are more likely to become project contributors.

Tue 29 May

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15:45 - 17:15
Distinguished papersICGSE 2018 at E2 room
Chair(s): Darja Šmite Blekinge Institute of Technology
15:45
20m
Research paper
On Developers' Personality in Large-scale Distributed Projects: The Case of the Apache Ecosystem
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Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Giuseppe Iaffaldano University of Bari, Filippo Lanubile University of Bari, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University
DOI Pre-print
16:05
20m
Research paper
Virtual by Design: How a Work Environment can Support Agile Distributed Software Development
ICGSE 2018
Pernille Lous IT University of Copenhagen, Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, Christian Bo Michelsen IT University of Copenhagen, Yvonne Dittrich IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Marco Kuhrmann Clausthal University of Technology, Allan Ebdrup Debitoor
16:25
20m
Research paper
Team Resilience in Distributed Student Projects
ICGSE 2018
Igor Cavrak University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Ivana Bosnić University of Zagreb
16:45
20m
Research paper
Scaling Agile across the Global Organization: An Early Stage Industrial SAFe Self-Assessment
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Mohammad Abdur Razzak Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ita Richardson Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, John Noll University of East London, and Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre, Clodagh Nic Canna Ocuco Ltd, Sarah Beecham Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick
17:05
10m
Talk
Questions and answers
ICGSE 2018