ICSE 2025
Sat 26 April - Sun 4 May 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Wed 30 Apr 2025 11:30 - 11:45 at 207 - Human and Social Process 1 Chair(s): Hausi Müller

Encompassing a diverse population of developers, non-technical users, and other stakeholders, open source software (OSS) development has expanded to broader social movements from the initial product development aims. Ideology, as a coherent system of ideas, offers value commitments and normative implications for any social movement, so do OSS ideologies for the open source movement. However, the SE literature on OSS ideology is often fragmented or lacks empirical evidence. We sought to develop a comprehensive empirical framework of OSS ideology. Following a grounded theory procedure, we collected and analyzed data from 22 OSS practitioners and 41 video recordings of Open Source Initiative (OSI) board members’ public narratives. A framework of OSS ideology emerged in our analysis, with six key categories: membership, norms/values, goals, activities, resources, and positions/group relations; each consists of several themes. With this ideological lens, we discussed the implications and insights into the research and practice of open source development.

Wed 30 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
Human and Social Process 1SE In Practice (SEIP) / New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) / Journal-first Papers at 207
Chair(s): Hausi Müller University of Victoria
11:00
15m
Talk
Toward a Theory on Programmer's Block Inspired by Writer's Block
Journal-first Papers
Belinda Schantong Chemnitz University of Technology, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University, Janet Siegmund Chemnitz University of Technology
Link to publication
11:15
15m
Talk
Digital Twins for Software Engineering Processes
New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER)
Robin Kimmel University of Stuttgart, Judith Michael University of Regensburg, Andreas Wortmann University of Stuttgart, Jingxi Zhang University of Stuttgart
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
Discovering Ideologies of the Open Source Software Movement
New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER)
Yang Yue California State University San Marcos, Yi Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, David Redmiles University of California, Irvine
11:45
15m
Talk
Identifying Factors Contributing to ``Bad Days'' for Software Developers: A Mixed-Methods Study
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Ike Obi Purdue University, West Lafayette, Jenna L. Butler Microsoft Research, Sankeerti Haniyur Microsoft Corporation, Brian Hassan Microsoft Corporation, Margaret-Anne Storey University of Victoria, Brendan Murphy Microsoft Corporation
12:00
15m
Talk
Time Warp: The Gap Between Developers’ Ideal vs Actual Workweeks in an AI-Driven EraAward Winner
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Sukrit Kumar Georgia Institute of Technology, Drishti Goel Microsoft, Thomas Zimmermann University of California, Irvine, Brian Houck Microsoft Research, B. Ashok Microsoft Research. India, Chetan Bansal Microsoft Research
12:15
15m
Talk
Wearables to measure developer experience at work
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Charlotte Brandebusemeyer Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Tobias Schimmer SAP Labs, Bert Arnrich Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam