Gender diversity and community smells: insights from the trenches

Gemma Catolino; Fabio Palomba; Damian Andrew Tamburri; Alexander Serebrenik; Filomena Ferrucci

doi:10.1109/MS.2019.2944594

Gender diversity and community smells: insights from the trenches

Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba, Damian Andrew Tamburri, Alexander Serebrenik, Filomena Ferrucci

Software Engineering and Technology

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Abstract

Given growing attention to gender diversity in software development teams, we asked practitioners if it was a useful tool to mitigate undesirable communication patterns. While many participants didn't consider gender diversity useful in this context, those who did were motivated by their own professional experience.

Original language	English
Article number	8852638
Pages (from-to)	10-16
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	37
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2019.2944594
Publication status	Published - 3 Jan 2020

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European Union's Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme	825040

Keywords

Community Smell
Gender Diversity
Survey

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