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Perceptions of diversity on GitHub: a user survey

Authors:

Bogdan Vasilescu,

Vladimir Filkov,

Alexander SerebrenikAuthors Info & Claims

CHASE '15: Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

Pages 50 - 56

Published: 16 May 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Understanding one's work environment is important for one's success, especially when working in teams. In virtual collaborative environments this amounts to being aware of the technical and social attributes of one's team members. Focusing on Open Source Software teams, naturally very diverse both socially and technically, we report the results of a user survey that tries to resolve how teamwork and individual attributes are perceived by developers collaborating on GitHub, and how those perceptions influence their work. Our findings can be used as complementary data to quantitative studies of developers' behavior on GitHub.

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Perceptions of diversity on GitHub: a user survey
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software version control
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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CHASE '15: Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

May 2015

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Andrew Begel
Microsoft Research
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Rafael Prikladnicki
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Yvonne Dittrich
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Cleidson R. B. de Souza
Federal University of Pará, Brazil / Vale Institute of Technology, Brazil
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Anita Sarma
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Tata Research Development and Design Centre, India

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