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Role of women in software architecture: an attempt at a systematic literature review

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Maria Spichkova,

Catia TrubianiAuthors Info & Claims

ECSA '17: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Proceedings

Pages 31 - 34

https://doi.org/10.1145/3129790.3129826

Published: 11 September 2017 Publication History

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to provide a literature review of gender diversity aspects within the field of Software Architecture (SA). The attempt of conducting a systematic literature review led to an interesting result: there are almost no papers to review. Only one article was published within this field. To analyse the situation we made the search broader and conducted a systematic literature review on gender diversity aspects within Software Engineering (SE) in general. For the second review we found a reasonable number of studies. We identified that the majority of the publications on gender diversity aspects within SE were focused not on analysis of state-of-the art in industry and industrial or SA research experiences, but on teaching aspects and on attracting female students to study STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) courses. This highly motivates further research on the role of women in SA.

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Role of women in software architecture: an attempt at a systematic literature review
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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ECSA '17: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Proceedings

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DOI:10.1145/3129790

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