Title : 
The GitHub Effect
         
        
            Author : 
Grier, David Alan
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Although GitHub has become a great tool for studying the software development process, it poses a fundamental problem to those who study work. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/z7aiYedJr8w is an audio recording of author David Alan Grier expanding on his Errant Hashtag column, in which he talks about how GitHub has become a great tool for studying the software development process but poses a fundamental problem to those who study work.
         
        
            Keywords : 
social networking (online); software engineering; GitHub Effect; software development process; Errant Hashtag; GitHub; Hawthorne effect; coding; software development;
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MC.2015.146