Gender diversity and women in software teams: how do they affect community smells?

Gemma Catolino; Fabio Palomba; Damian Andrew Tamburri; A. Serebrenik; Filomena Ferrucci

doi:10.1109/ICSE-SEIS.2019.00010

Gender diversity and women in software teams: how do they affect community smells?

Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba, Damian Andrew Tamburri, A. Serebrenik, Filomena Ferrucci

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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
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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS.2019.00010
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

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Conference	41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, (ICSE2019)
Abbreviated title	ICSE2019
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	25/05/19 → 31/05/19
Internet address	https://2019.icse-conferences.org/home

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Community Smells
Empirical Study
Gender Balance
Software Organizational Structures

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Catolino, G., Palomba, F., Tamburri, D. A., Serebrenik, A., & Ferrucci, F. (2019). Gender diversity and women in software teams: how do they affect community smells? In Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society, ICSE-SEIS 2019 (pp. 11-20). Article 8797636 ACM/IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS.2019.00010

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Catolino, G, Palomba, F, Tamburri, DA , Serebrenik, A & Ferrucci, F 2019, Gender diversity and women in software teams: how do they affect community smells? in Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society, ICSE-SEIS 2019., 8797636, ACM/IEEE, Piscataway, pp. 11-20, 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, (ICSE2019), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 25/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS.2019.00010

Gender diversity and women in software teams: how do they affect community smells? / Catolino, Gemma; Palomba, Fabio; Tamburri, Damian Andrew et al.
Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society, ICSE-SEIS 2019. Piscataway: ACM/IEEE, 2019. p. 11-20 8797636.

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