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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia

Interpersonal trust plays a crucial role in facilitating collaborative tasks, such as software development. While previous research recognizes the significance of trust in an organizational setting, there is a lack of understanding in how trust is exhibited in OSS distributed teams, where there is an absence of direct, in-person communications. To foster trust and collaboration in OSS teams, we need to understand what trust is and how it is exhibited in written developer communications (e.g., pull requests, chats). In this paper, we first investigate various dimensions of trust to identify the ways trusting behavior can be observed in OSS. Next, we sample a set of 100 GitHub pull requests from Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects, to analyze and demonstrate how each dimension of trust can be exhibited. Our findings provide preliminary insights into cues that might be helpful to automatically assess team dynamics and establish interpersonal trust in OSS teams, leading to successful and sustainable OSS.

Wed 17 May

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

11:00 - 12:30
11:00
15m
Talk
Do I Belong? Modeling Sense of Virtual Community Among Linux Kernel ContributorsDistinguished Paper Award
Technical Track
Bianca Trinkenreich Northern Arizona University, USA, Klaas-Jan Stol Lero; University College Cork; SINTEF Digital , Anita Sarma Oregon State University, Daniel M. German University of Victoria, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University
Pre-print
11:15
15m
Talk
Cognitive Reflection in Software Verification and Testing
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Kevin Buffardi California State University, Chico
11:30
15m
Talk
A Model for Understanding and Reducing Developer Burnout
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Bianca Trinkenreich Northern Arizona University, USA, Klaas-Jan Stol Lero; University College Cork; SINTEF Digital , Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University, Anita Sarma Oregon State University, Marcelo Lara Globant, Michael Feathers Globant, Nick Ross Globant, Kevin Bishop Globant
Pre-print
11:45
15m
Full-paper
Designing for Cognitive Diversity: Improving the GitHub Experience for Newcomers
SEIS - Software Engineering in Society
Italo Santos Northern Arizona University, João Felipe Pimentel Northern Arizona University, Igor Wiese Federal University of Technology, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Anita Sarma Oregon State University, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University
Pre-print
12:00
7m
Talk
From Anecdote to Evidence: The Relationship Between Personality and Need for Cognition of Developers
Journal-First Papers
Daniel Russo Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Andres R. Masegosa Aalborg University, Klaas-Jan Stol Lero; University College Cork; SINTEF Digital
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
12:07
7m
Talk
A Qualitative Study of Developers’ Discussions of Their Problems and Joys During the Early COVID-19 Months
Journal-First Papers
Gias Uddin University of Calgary, Canada, Omar Alam Trent University, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology
12:15
7m
Talk
Interpersonal trust in OSS: Exploring dimensions of trust in GitHub pull requests
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Amirali Sajadi Drexel University, Kostadin Damevski Virginia Commonwealth University, Preetha Chatterjee Drexel University, USA
Pre-print
12:22
7m
Talk
The risk-taking software engineer: A framed portrait
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Lorenz Graf-Vlachy University of Stuttgart
Pre-print