Gender Diversity and Women in Software Teams: How Do They Affect Community Smells?

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Gender Diversity and Community Smells: Insights From the Trenches

“…Moreover, the presence of women within teams improves communication and collaboration [6]. Based on these validated theories, our previous study [1] investigated the relationship between gender diversity and presence of community smells. In this work, we triangulated our findings through a survey with practitioners.…”

“…For this reason, in our previous study [1] we conjectured that gender diversity and, below we give an overview of the questions.…”

“…Afterwards, for each scenario we asked participants to rate the importance of three aspects of team composition to mitigate the presence of the problem, i.e., (i) gender diversity, (ii) experience of developers and (iii) team size. We consider the experience and team size for triangulation purposes, as these variables have been used as control variables in our earlier statistical model [1]. We asked to score the importance on a Likert scale from "Not at all important" to "Very Important" and to motivate the rating, eventually suggesting additional factors that could mitigate the problem.…”

Reducing implicit gender biases in software development: does intergroup contact theory work?

“…Many software organizations and engineers now can deal with explicit gender biases properly and resist their impacts on decision-making, at least partially. However, there is still a long way to go to build an environment free of gender biases in software development [10], partial due to the subtle implicit gender biases [66]. Implicit gender biases are not only prevalent among software engineers but also have significant impacts on their decision-making in various software development scenarios, for example, assessing job candidates and evaluating developers' contributions [81].…”

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“…More generally, recent research has demonstrated how ostensibly technical concerns like out-of-date documentation can create barriers to entry for women seeking to participate in open-source software development [15], how gender balance correlates with productivity in GitHub projects [16] or likelihood of suboptimal communication patterns [17], and on differences in activity of individuals of different genders on such software engineering platforms as GitHub [18] and Stack Overflow [19]. This being said so far the studies have focused on the opposition of women and men with gender either being reported by survey participants or inferred by automatic tools based on names and avatar images.…”