How diverse is your team? Investigating gender and nationality diversity in GitHub teams

Authors

  • Marco Ortu DIEE, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
  • Giuseppe Destefanis University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
  • Steve Counsell Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
  • Stephen Swift Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
  • Roberto Tonelli DIEE, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
  • Michele Marchesi DIEE, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Keywords:

Affective analysis, Issue report, Empirical software engineering

Abstract

Background

Building an effective team of developers is a complex task faced by both software companies and open source communities. The problem of forming a “dream”;

Aim

In this paper, we present the results of an empirical study aimed at investigating the link between team diversity (i.e., gender, nationality) and productivity (issue fixing time).;

 

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Published

2017-11-20

How to Cite

Ortu, M., Destefanis, G., Counsell, S., Swift, S., Tonelli, R., & Marchesi, M. (2017). How diverse is your team? Investigating gender and nationality diversity in GitHub teams. Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development, 5, 9:1 – 9:18. Retrieved from https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jserd/article/view/431

Issue

Vol. 5 (2017)

Section

Research Article