Recruiting and onboarding software testing professionals are complex and cost intensive
activities. Whether onboarding is successful and sustainable depends on both the employee …

Recruiting and onboarding software testing professionals are complex and cost intensive
activities. Whether onboarding is successful and sustainable depends on both the employee …

The global shortage of highly skilled employees has created a need for a more efficient
onboarding process in software development companies. The experienced onboarding …

Background. Within the software industry, it is commonly estimated that software
professionals invest a substantial portion of their work hours in the process of understanding …

Inexperienced software developers-for example, undergraduates entering the workforce-
exhibit a lack of testing skills. They have trouble understanding and applying basic testing …

Developers frequently move into new teams or environments across software companies.
Their onboarding experience is correlated with productivity, job satisfaction, and other short …

Onboarding is a process of organizational socialization of the new hires, that includes
recruitment, orientation, training, coaching and support. While onboarding individuals into …

Without newcomers, open source software (OSS) projects are hardly sustainable. Yet,
newcomers face a steep learning curve during OSS onboarding in which they must …

The onboarding process refers to the organizational integration or socialization of new
employees to the company and their role. This includes training, orientation, support, and …

This paper attempts to understand motivators and de-motivators that influence the decisions
of software professionals to take up and sustain software testing careers across four different …