Adding sparkle to social coding

Trockman, Asher; Zhou, Shurui; Kästner, Christian; Vasilescu, Bogdan

doi:10.1145/3180155.3180209

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“…One potential explanation for this finding is that the Starstruck badge is awarded to a developer as a result of the interest of others (stars) in their repositories: creating a repository implies an effort broader in scope, if not harder, as compared to others badges, which require the developers to take one action (e.g., answer a question, merge a pull request). This result is somewhat consistent with those reported by Trockman et al [24] who found repository badges related to popularity to be more reliable as assessment signals. One major difference with their work is that repository badges are chosen-maintainers select what they intend to signal by adding them to README pages (e.g., the count of downloads badge to signal popularity, up-to-date dependency badge to signal the lack of known security risks).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…To gauge the perceptions of personal badges in GITHUB (RQ 4 ), we used Google Forms to design an online survey, consisting of 16 questions (both closed-and open-ended). The survey questions are partially based on a similar work by Trockman et al [24] who investigated repository badges in GITHUB. After collecting the basic demographics, the questions focused on why respondents choose (not) to display badges on their profile, whether they consider them as indicators of development skills, and what inferences they make about other developers who display badges on their profile pages.…”

Section: Empirical Study a Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Lot of Talk and a Badge: An Empirical Analysis of Personal Achievements in GitHub

2023

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GITHUB has introduced gamification via personal achievements, whereby badges are unlocked and displayed on developers' personal profile pages in recognition of their development activities. In this paper, we present a mixed-methods empirical investigation to study the diffusion of personal badges in GITHUB in addition to the effects of and the reactions to their introduction. First, we conducted an observational study by mining longitudinal data for over 6,000 developers and performed correlation as well as regression analysis. Then, we analyzed 33 answers to a survey and 312 GITHUB community discussions about the topic of personal badges to gauge how the community reacted to the introduction of the new feature. We found that most of the sampled developers own at least a badge, but also observed an increasing number of users who choose to keep their profile private and opt out from displaying badges. Besides, badges are in general poorly correlated with developers' qualities and dispositions such as timeliness and desire to collaborate. We also found that, with the exception of the Starstruck badge and the number of followers, their introduction to GITHUB had no effects. Finally, the reaction of the community has been in general mixed, as developers find them appealing in principle but without a clear purpose and hardly reflecting their abilities in the current form.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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A Lot of Talk and a Badge: An Empirical Analysis of Personal Achievements in GitHub

2023

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“…For prospective users, it is good to know whether you have tested your software and, if so, which tests you have included. This can be done by displaying a badge [ 7 ] (see https://github.com/microbinfie-hackathon2020/CSIS/blob/main/README.md#example-software-testing ), or linking to your defined testing strategy e.g. a GitHub Actions YAML, (see recommendation #2, Fig.…”

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Software testing in microbial bioinformatics: a call to action

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Computational algorithms have become an essential component of research, with great efforts by the scientific community to raise standards on development and distribution of code. Despite these efforts, sustainability and reproducibility are major issues since continued validation through software testing is still not a widely adopted practice. Here, we report seven recommendations that help researchers implement software testing in microbial bioinformatics. We have developed these recommendations based on our experience from a collaborative hackathon organised prior to the American Society for Microbiology Next Generation Sequencing (ASM NGS) 2020 conference. We also present a repository hosting examples and guidelines for testing, available from https://github.com/microbinfie-hackathon2020/CSIS.

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“…GitHub has added a number of social and awareness features that create a “social coding” transparent environment that provides fodder for a great many social and technical inferences about the state of a project and the activities of other developers 1–3 . Badges, which have become quite popular, can effectively encourage good development practices 4 . The pervasiveness of social coding also carries the benefits of de facto standardization, as when a developer we were interviewing said of pull requests, that they have created a uniform “language of contribution.”…”

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“…encourage good development practices. 4 The pervasiveness of social coding also carries the benefits of de facto standardization, as when a developer we were interviewing said of pull requests, that they have created a uniform "language of contribution. "…”

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Global software engineering in the age of GitHub and zoom

Herbsleb

2021

J Software Evolu Process

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Much has changed since the inaugural ICGSE conference in 2006. Tools have improved, awareness of cultural differences is widespread, and developments such as the foregrounding of open source have all enhanced our ability to work across geographic divides. But the pervasive and profound impact of software in the world -especially for societal scale systems such as social media -forces new and deeply challenging responsibilities on both developers and academics. We must find better ways of incorporating ethics into our development practices and pay far more attention to harmful unintended consequences as deployed systems interact with and often disrupt crucial social systems.

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Adding sparkle to social coding

Cited by 57 publications

References 58 publications

A Lot of Talk and a Badge: An Empirical Analysis of Personal Achievements in GitHub

A Lot of Talk and a Badge: An Empirical Analysis of Personal Achievements in GitHub

Software testing in microbial bioinformatics: a call to action

Global software engineering in the age of GitHub and zoom

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