ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
Wed 17 Apr 2024 17:00 - 17:15 at Glicínia Quartin - Human and Social 3 Chair(s): Tamara Lopez

Software development is fundamentally a team-driven process; researchers in software engineering have identified various human and social factors that can significantly impact it. Culture emerged as a critical element, and the diversity deriving from cultural differences can be highly impactful both positively and negatively. Thus, it is crucial to understand the phenomenon and provide strategies to practitioners to manage it suitably. Despite existing knowledge about how culture influences software development, limitations persist. Most importantly, a unified and comprehensive (grounded) theory of how cultural differences influence and are managed in software development has yet to exist. This lack has two significant consequences: (1) it makes research on culture fragmented, leading to the continual definition of new concepts that do not allow state of the art to advance significantly, and (2) it reduces the ability of the research to be transferred to practitioners since there is no framework designed to be understood and used by them. To address the above-mentioned limitation, this work proposed a theoretical framework of “Dealing With Cultural Dispersion,” which focuses on challenges and benefits originating from cultural differences and strategies for dealing with them. Such a framework was developed through a qualitative study using an iterative research approach, including interviews and socio-technical grounded theory for data analysis. The proposed framework was designed to reveal the tangible effects of practitioners’ culture in software development, allowing software teams to (1) clearly understand the problem and (2) implement the correct strategy for addressing it. Additionally, researchers can use this framework as a foundation to (deductively) develop a more robust and comprehensive theory in this field.

Wed 17 Apr

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16:00 - 17:30
16:00
15m
Talk
GenderMag Improves Discoverability in the Field, Especially for WomenACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Track
Emerson Murphy-Hill Google, Alberto Elizondo Google, Ambar Murillo Google, Marian Harbach Google, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University, Delphine Carlson Google, Florian Dessloch Google
Link to publication Pre-print
16:15
15m
Talk
Unraveling the Drivers of Sense of Belonging in Software Delivery Teams: Insights from a Large-Scale Survey
Research Track
Bianca Trinkenreich Colorado State University, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University
Pre-print
16:30
15m
Talk
An Empirical Study of the Content and Quality of Sprint Retrospectives in Undergraduate Team Software Projects
Software Engineering Education and Training
Chris Hundhausen Oregon State University, USA, Phillip Conrad University of California, Santa Barbara, Ahsun Tariq Oregon State University, Surya Pugal UC Santa Barbara, Brian Zamora Flores UC Santa Barbara
16:45
15m
Talk
Girls Rocking the Code: Gender-dependent Stereotypes, Engagement & Comprehension in Music Programming
Software Engineering Education and Training
Isabella Graßl University of Passau, Gordon Fraser University of Passau
17:00
15m
Talk
Dealing With Cultural Dispersion: a Novel Theoretical Framework for Software Engineering Research and Practice
Software Engineering in Society
Stefano Lambiase University of Salerno, Gemma Catolino University of Salerno, Bice Della Piana University of Salerno, Filomena Ferrucci University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno
Pre-print Media Attached
17:15
7m
Talk
Programming by Example Made Easy
Journal-first Papers
Jiarong Wu , Lili Wei McGill University, Yanyan Jiang Nanjing University, Shing-Chi Cheung Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Luyao Ren Peking University, Chang Xu Nanjing University