Socio-Technical Work-Rate Increase Associates With Changes in Work Patterns in Online Projects

Sarker, Farhana; Vasilescu, Bogdan; Blincoe, Kelly; Filkov, Vladimir

doi:10.1109/icse.2019.00099

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“…), and the quality of the discussions taking place among the role members. For the latter, we could cluster the types of reactions (Sawant et al 2019;Borges et al 2019) and apply pretrained language models to detect toxic individuals 15 or developers' burning out (Sarker et al 2019).…”

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On the analysis of non-coding roles in open source development

Izquierdo¹,

Cabot

2021

Empir Software Eng

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The role of non-coding contributors in Open Source Software (OSS) is poorly understood. Most of current research around OSS development focuses on the coding aspects of the project (e.g., commits, pull requests or code reviews) while ignoring the potential of other types of contributions. Often, due to the assumption that these other contributions are not significant in number and that, in any case, they are handled by the same people that are also part of the “coding team”. This paper aims to investigate whether this is actually the case by analyzing the frequency and diversity of non-coding contributions in OSS development. As a sample of projects for our study we have taken the 100 most popular projects in the ecosystem of NPM, a package manager for JavaScript. Our results validate the importance of dedicated non-coding contributors in OSS and the diversity of OSS communities as, typically, a contributor specializes in a specific subset of roles. We foresee that projects adopting explicit policies to attract and onboard them could see a positive impact in their long-term sustainability providing they also put in place the right governance strategies to facilitate the migration and collaboration among the different roles. As part of this work, we also provide a replicability package to facilitate further quantitative role-based analysis by other researchers.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the analysis of non-coding roles in open source development

Izquierdo¹,

Cabot

2021

Empir Software Eng

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“…Contributors' social and technical activities are often mixed with and mutually impact each other. Sarker et al revealed that different activities could influence each other and affect contributors' performance [56]. Calefato et al found the activities tend to be more organized, more dutiful, and more cooperative, along with the involvement [57].…”

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“…We excluded these bot accounts through a two-step procedure. We first searched the accounts containing words "build", "exporter", or "bot", in their login names, full names, or emails [56], then manually checked them and removed the bot accounts according to their GITHUB profile descriptions. Furthermore, we manually checked the remaining 1,326 developers in our dataset and did not find other existing bots.…”

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Off to a Good Start: Dynamic Contribution Patterns and Technical Success in an OSS Newcomer’s Early Career

Yue

Wang

Redmiles

2023

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Attracting and retaining newcomers are critical aspects for OSS projects, as such projects rely on newcomers' sustainable contributions. Considerable effort has been made to help newcomers by identifying and overcoming the barriers during the onboarding process. However, most newcomers eventually fail and drop out of their projects even after successful onboarding. Meanwhile, it has been long known that individuals' early career stages profoundly impact their long-term career success. However, newcomers' early careers are less investigated in SE research. In this paper, we sought to develop an empirical understanding of the relationships between newcomers' dynamic contribution patterns in their early careers and their technical success. To achieve this goal, we compiled a dataset of newcomers' contribution data from 54 large OSS projects under three different ecosystems and analyzed it with time series analysis and other statistical analysis techniques. Our analyses yield rich findings. The correlations between several contribution patterns and technical success were identified. In general, being consistent and persistent in newcomers' early careers is positively associated with their technical success. While these correlations generally hold in all three ecosystems, we observed some differences in detailed contribution patterns correlated with technical success across ecosystems. In addition, we performed a case study to investigate whether another type of contributions, i.e., documentation contribution, could potentially have positive correlations with newcomers' technical success. We discussed the implications and summarized practical recommendations to OSS newcomers. The insights gained from this work demonstrated the necessity of extending the focus of research and practice to newcomers' early careers and hence shed light on future research in this direction.

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“…In this sense, the participant describes these activities as causing certain negative psychological responses and distractions. Documenting the code is a task that is not typically enjoyed by many developers [37,40], but it is required for accountability and standardisation processes of the software industry.…”

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Profession‐centric measures and indicators for occupational stress: An empirical study with novice software developers in Mexico

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Occupational stress refers to job-related uneasiness and anxiety, which affect people's emotional or physical health. Although occupational stress has been studied in several industries, it has remained largely unexplored in software developers, particularly in emerging economies such as Mexico. In this work, we propose a set of measures for supporting the assessment of occupational stress in software developers, which concurs with the types of tasks performed by software developers daily. For this, we first identified several stressors found in the literature. Then, we carried out 10 semi-structured interviews with novice software developers to further understand stressors at the workplace. Afterwards, we conducted a study with 30 novice software developers for associating stress with workplace measures. From our work, we identified the workload, mental work fatigue, and work distraction as relevant measures associated with a certain level of stress in software developers. Our results suggest that some indicators can be used to monitor measures that are associated with occupational stress in software developers. | INTRODUCTIONThe software industry in Mexico has been growing steadily for the last two decades. It has several strengths, which make it attractive for investment in the global market. According to A. T. Kearney, a global consulting firm, Mexico ranks 8th for providing information technology services worldwide [1]. In the U.S. from 1997 to 2012, software industry production grew from $149 billion to $425 billion USD. This growth outpaced the rest of the economy, the software industry's direct share of U.S. Gross Domestic Product increased from 1.7% to 2.6% [2]. This growth was also reflected in Mexico where software companies hired thousands of new professionals until 2017, as reported in [3]. Several news reports have dubbed the city of Guadalajara as the Mexican Silicon Valley [4][5][6][7]. However, Mexico tops the world ranking in occupational stress, above China and the U.S. [8]. Symptoms of occupational stress are physical and psychological for the worker and are present at the organizational level. Workers can present cardiovascular and muscular disorders, increased blood pressure, insomnia, lack of appetite, flu, chronic pain, rheumatoid arthritis, etc., among others. They can also present psychological symptoms such as excessive worrying, anxiety, anger, frustration, inability to make decisions, mental blockage, bad mood, frequent forgetfulness, drug and alcohol addictions, depression, low self-esteem, and deterioration of interpersonal relationships. Regarding the organization level, the symptoms are decreased performance and productivity, absenteeism, increased costs due to illness, high job turnover, lack of cooperation between colleagues, higher rate of errors, accidents, and incidents [9].Software developers, in particular, show at least one symptom of occupational stress, and at least 60% of them have high levels of stress [10]. Thus, there are psycho-social risks associated with software ...

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Socio-Technical Work-Rate Increase Associates With Changes in Work Patterns in Online Projects

Cited by 12 publications

References 49 publications

On the analysis of non-coding roles in open source development

On the analysis of non-coding roles in open source development

Off to a Good Start: Dynamic Contribution Patterns and Technical Success in an OSS Newcomer’s Early Career

Profession‐centric measures and indicators for occupational stress: An empirical study with novice software developers in Mexico

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