SocioTechnical Effects in Software Teams

Опубликовано 17 августа 2016, 20:44

As software continues to grow in size and complexity, so do development teams. Consequently, coordination and communication within these teams play larger roles in productivity and software quality. My research focuses on the relationships between developers in large software projects and how software affects and is affected by these relationships. Fortunately, source code repository histories, mailing list archives, and bug databases contain latent data from which we can reconstruct a rich view of a project over time and analyze these sociotechnical relationships. In this talk, I will present the results of some empirical studies whose goal is to answer questions that can help software project leaders understand and make decisions about their own teams: Does geographically distributed development necessarily adversely impact software quality? What is the effect of ownership and expertise on defects in different process domains? Are large open source projects really organized like bazaars or do they suffer from the effects of Brooks' Law?