skip to main content
10.1145/3195836.3195857acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesicseConference Proceedingsconference-collections
short-paper

Diversity in software engineering

Authors Info & Claims
Published:27 May 2018Publication History

ABSTRACT

1 Studies about diversity in Software Engineering (SE) are important to understand the disparity occurring nowadays at information technology workplaces. The goal of this work is to analyze the characteristics of diversity in SE and how to adapt SE practices when we have teams with diversity characteristics. We collected data by conducting a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and semi-structured interviews aiming to identify what impacts of diversity can be observed in software development teams. We found that there are several challenges and barriers encountered in the work environment, and that inclusion and diversity can affect the software development teams positively.

References

  1. A. Woszczynski, C. Beise, M. Myers and J. Moody, "Diversity and the information technology workforce", Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research Freedom in Philadelphia-leveraging differences and diversity in the IT workforce - SIGMIS CPR '03, 2003. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  2. H. Patrick and V. Kumar, "Managing Workplace Diversity", SAGE Open, vol. 2, no. 2, 2012.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  3. V. Pieterse, D. Kourie and I. Sonnekus, "Software engineering team diversity and performance", Proceedings of the 2006 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries - SAICSIT '06, 2006. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  4. N. Fila, R. Wertz and S. Purzer, "Does diversity in novice teams lead to greater innovation?", 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2011. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  5. V. Taylor and R. Ladner, "Data trends on minorities and people with disabilities in computing", Communications of the ACM, vol. 54, no. 12, p. 34, 2011. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  6. I. Sommerville, Engenharia de software. São Paulo: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  7. Y. Guerrier, C. Evans, J. Glover and C. Wilson, "'Technical, but not very...': constructing gendered identities in IT-related employment", Work, Employment and Society, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 494--511, 2009.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  8. T. Camp, "'Computing, we have a problem ...'", ACM Inroads, vol. 3, no. 4, p. 34, 2012. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  9. B. Mujtaba, Workforce diversity management. Tamarac, FL: Llumina Press, 2007.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  10. E. Ruiz Ben, "Defining Expertise in Software Development While Doing Gender", Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 312--332, 2007.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  11. L. Staehr, G. Byrne and E. Bell, "Gender and Australian IT Industry", Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, pp. 467--473, Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference, 2006.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  12. O. Hazzan and Y. Dubinsky, "Empower Gender Diversity with Agile Software Development", Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, pp. 249--256, Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference, 2006.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  13. E. Hanappi-Egger, ""Shall I stay or shall I go"?", Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 144--157, 2012.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  14. R. Ladner and S. Burgstahler, "Increasing the participation of individuals with disabilities in computing", Communications of the ACM, vol. 58, no. 12, pp. 33--36, 2015. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  15. D. Krutz, S. Malachowsky, S. Jones and J. Kaplan, "Enhancing the educational experience for deaf and hard of hearing students in software engineering", 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2015. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  16. M. Morris, A. Begel and B. Wiedermann, "Understanding the Challenges Faced by Neurodiverse Software Engineering Employees", Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility - ASSETS '15, 2015. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  17. C. McMillan and A. Rodda-Tyler, "Collaborative software engineering education between college seniors and blind high school students", Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion - ICSE '16, 2016. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  18. P. Bourque and R. Fairley, SWEBOK: Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, 3rd ed. IEEE,2014.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  19. C. Wohlin, "Guidelines for snowballing in systematic literature studies and a replication in software engineering", Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering - EASE '14, 2014. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  20. M. Falagas, E. Pitsouni, G. Malietzis and G. Pappas, "Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar: strengths and weaknesses", The FASEB Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 338--342, 2008.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref

Index Terms

  1. Diversity in software engineering

    Recommendations

    Comments

    Login options

    Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

    Sign in
    • Published in

      cover image ACM Conferences
      CHASE '18: Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
      May 2018
      136 pages
      ISBN:9781450357258
      DOI:10.1145/3195836

      Copyright © 2018 ACM

      Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected].

      Publisher

      Association for Computing Machinery

      New York, NY, United States

      Publication History

      • Published: 27 May 2018

      Permissions

      Request permissions about this article.

      Request Permissions

      Check for updates

      Qualifiers

      • short-paper

      Acceptance Rates

      Overall Acceptance Rate47of70submissions,67%

      Upcoming Conference

      ICSE 2024

    PDF Format

    View or Download as a PDF file.

    PDF

    eReader

    View online with eReader.

    eReader