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Collaboration is crucial in Software Engineering (SE), yet factors like gender bias can shape team dynamics and behaviours. This study examines an eight-week project involving 39 SE students across eight teams contributing to GitHub…

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Empirical Software Engineering has received much attention in recent years and became a de-facto standard for scientific practice in Software Engineering. However, while extensive guidelines are nowadays available for designing, conducting,…

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This paper investigates how software professionals perceive the economic implications of diversity in software engineering teams. Motivated by a gap in software engineering research, which has largely emphasized socio-technical and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sofia Tapias Montana , Ronnie de Souza Santos

Gender bias, a systemic and unfair difference in how men and women are treated in a given domain, is widely studied across different academic fields. Yet, there are barely any studies of the phenomenon in the field of academic information…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Silvia Masiero , Aleksi Aaltonen

Background: Several researchers report the impact of gender on software development teams, especially in relation to women. In general, women are under-represented on these teams and face challenges and difficulties in their workplaces.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Larissa Soares , Edna Canedo , Claudia Pereira , Carla Bezerra , Fabiana Mendes

The heterogeneity in the organization of software engineering (SE) research historically exists, i.e., funded research model and hands-on model, which makes software engineering become a thriving interdisciplinary field in the last 50…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yang Yue , Zheng Jiang , Yi Wang

Predictive models are one of the most important techniques that are widely applied in many areas of software engineering. There have been a large number of primary studies that apply predictive models and that present well-preformed studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Yanming Yang , Xin Xia , David Lo , Tingting Bi , John Grundy , Xiaohu Yang

Background: Contemporary software development organizations lack diversity and the ratios of women in Free and open-source software (FOSS) communities are even lower than the industry average. Although the results of recent studies hint the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Sayma Sultana , Amiangshu Bosu

Context: Start-up companies have become an important supplier of innovation and software-intensive products. The flexibility and reactiveness of start-ups enables fast development and launch of innovative products. However, a majority of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Eriks Klotins , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek

Empirical methods like experimentation have become a powerful means to drive the field of software engineering by creating scientific evidence on software development, operation, and maintenance, but also by supporting practitioners in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Michael Felderer , Guilherme Horta Travassos

Software engineering (SE) faces significant diversity challenges in both academia and industry, with underrepresented students encountering hostile environments, limited representation, and systemic biases that hinder their academic and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Ronnie de Souza Santos , Italo Santos , Robson Santos , Cleyton Magalhaes

The traditional path to a software engineering career usually involves a post-secondary diploma in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. However, many individuals working as software engineers take a non-traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tavian Barnes , Ken Jen Lee , Cristina Tavares , Gema Rodríguez-Pérez , Meiyappan Nagappan

Implicit gender bias in software development is a well-documented issue, such as the association of technical roles with men. To address this bias, it is important to understand it in more detail. This study uses data mining techniques to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Christoph Treude , Hideaki Hata

Empirical software engineering has received much attention in recent years and coined the shift from a more design-science-driven engineering discipline to an insight-oriented, and theory-centric one. Yet, we still face many challenges,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Daniel Méndez Fernández , Jan-Hendrik Passoth

We have designed an online survey to understand the status quo of four dimensions of gender biases among the contemporary computing organizations. Our preliminary results found almost one-third of the respondents have reported first-hand…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Sayma Sultana , London Ariel Cavaletto , Amiangshu Bosu

Background: Assessing and communicating software engineering research can be challenging. Design science is recognized as an appropriate research paradigm for applied research but is seldom referred to in software engineering. Applying the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Emelie Engström , Margaret-Anne Storey , Per Runeson , Martin Höst , Maria Teresa Baldassarre

Women have been shown to be effective leaders in many team-based situations. However, it is also well-recognized that women are underrepresented in engineering and technology areas, which leads to wasted efforts and a lack of diversity in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Anh Nguyen-Duc , Soudabeh Khodambashi , Jon Atle Gulla , John Krogstie , Pekka Abrahamsson

This note highlights the importance of investigating diversity aspects in combination in empirical research. It draws on the psychological discourse and suggests why and how software engineering scholars can use the aspect of diversity in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Lucas Gren

The IT industry provides supportive pathways such as returnship programs, coding boot camps, and buddy systems for women re-entering their job after a career break. Academia, however, offers limited opportunities to motivate women to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Shalini Chakraborty , Sebastian Baltes

Context: Contemporary software development organizations lack diversity and the ratios of women in Free and open-source software (FOSS) communities are even lower than the industry average. Although the results of recent studies hint the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Sayma Sultana , Asif Kamal Turzo , Amiangshu Bosu