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A Survey-based qualitative study to characterize expectations of software developers from five stakeholders
15th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2021 ; 2021.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-1501792
ABSTRACT
Background. Studies on developer productivity and well-being find that the perceptions of productivity in a software team can be a socio-Technical problem. Intuitively, problems and challenges can be better handled by managing expectations in software teams. Aim. Our goal is to understand whether the expectations of software developers vary towards diverse stakeholders in software teams. Method. We surveyed 181 professional software developers to understand their expectations from five different stakeholders (1) organizations, (2) managers, (3) peers, (4) new hires, and (5) government and educational institutions. The five stakeholders are determined by conducting semi-formal interviews of software developers. We ask open-ended survey questions and analyze the responses using open coding. Results. We observed 18 multi-faceted expectations types. While some expectations are more specific to a stakeholder, other expectations are cross-cutting. For example, developers expect work-benefits from their organizations, but expect the adoption of standard software engineering (SE) practices from their organizations, peers, and new hires. Conclusion. Out of the 18 categories, three categories are related to career growth. This observation supports previous research that happiness cannot be assured by simply offering more money or a promotion. Among the most number of responses, we find expectations from educational institutions to offer relevant teaching and from governments to improve job stability, which indicate the increasingly important roles of these organizations to help software developers. This observation can be especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2021 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.

Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: Scopus Type of study: Observational study / Qualitative research Language: English Journal: IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2021 Year: 2021 Document Type: Article

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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: Scopus Type of study: Observational study / Qualitative research Language: English Journal: IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2021 Year: 2021 Document Type: Article