Towards recognizing and rewarding efficient developer work patterns

Author

Snipes, Will ; Augustine, Vinay ; Nair, Anil R. ; Murphy-Hill, Emerson

Author_Institution

Ind. Software Syst., ABB Corp. Res., Raleigh, NC, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

18-26 May 2013

Firstpage

1277

Lastpage

1280

Abstract

Software engineering researchers develop great techniques consisting of practices and tools that improve efficiency and quality of software development. Prior work evaluates developers´ use of techniques such as Test-Driven-Development and refactoring by measuring actions in the development environment. What we still lack is a method to communicate effectively and motivate developers to adopt best practices and tools. This work proposes a game-like system to motivate adoption while continuously measuring developers´ use of more efficient development techniques.

Keywords

program testing; software development management; software maintenance; software quality; software tools; game-like system; software developer motivation; software developer work pattern recognition; software development quality improvement; software engineering; software refactoring; software tool; test driven development; Best practices; Browsers; Data mining; Monitoring; Navigation; Software; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering (ICSE), 2013 35th International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3073-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606697

Filename

6606697