Abstract
As social as software engineers are, there is a known and established gender imbalance in our community structures, regardless of their open- or closed-source nature. To shed light on the actual benefits of achieving such balance, this empirical study looks into the relations between such balance and the occurrence of community smells, that is, sub-optimal circumstances and patterns across the software organizational structure. Examples of community smells are Organizational Silo effects (overly disconnected sub-groups) or Lone Wolves (defiant community members). Results indicate that the presence of women generally reduces the amount of community smells. We conclude that women are instrumental to reducing community smells in software development teams.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering |
Subtitle of host publication | Software Engineering in Society, ICSE-SEIS 2019 |
Place of Publication | Piscataway |
Publisher | ACM/IEEE |
Pages | 11-20 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-7281-1762-1 |
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Publication status | Published - 28 May 2019 |
Event | 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, (ICSE2019) - Montreal, Canada Duration: 25 May 2019 → 31 May 2019 https://2019.icse-conferences.org/home |
Conference
Conference | 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, (ICSE2019) |
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Abbreviated title | ICSE2019 |
Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Montreal |
Period | 25/05/19 → 31/05/19 |
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Keywords
- Community Smells
- Empirical Study
- Gender Balance
- Software Organizational Structures