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Proceedings ArticleDOI
Nguyen, Duesterwald, Klinger, Santhanam 
01 Jan 2012
6 Citations
We argue that our automated developer expertise ranking can be beneficial in the planning of a software project and is applicable beyond software support in the other phases of the software lifecycle.
The interaction of the developer and the environment provides explanatory power above and beyond either of the factors separately, suggesting that studies examining strain and performance of developers should explicitly consider and measure the cognitive style fit between the software developer and the software development environment.
Our findings show that having strong logical reasoning and hypothesis testing skills are differentiating factors in the software developer/tester performance in terms of defect rates.
I find that women are much more prevalent among workers hired in software quality assurance than in other software subspecialties.
We conclude that developer metrics are good predictor of faults and we must consider the human factors for improving the software reliability.
Open accessJournal ArticleDOI
06 Jul 2018-IEEE Software
2 Citations
But in the end, becoming a professional software developer is your decision and responsibility.
This paper argues that existing large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors.
Open accessBook ChapterDOI
Fabian Fagerholm, Max Pagels 
26 May 2014
13 Citations
It may also help researchers to study models of software developer experience and value systems.