On Developers' Personality in Large-scale Distributed Projects: The Case of the Apache Ecosystem
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.
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15:45 20mResearch paper | On Developers' Personality in Large-scale Distributed Projects: The Case of the Apache Ecosystem ICGSE 2018 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 20mResearch 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 20mResearch 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 20mResearch paper | Scaling Agile across the Global Organization: An Early Stage Industrial SAFe Self-Assessment ICGSE 2018 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 10mTalk | Questions and answers ICGSE 2018 |