We define perceived diversity as the diversity factors that individuals are born with.
Perceived diversity in Software Engineering has been recognized as a high-value team …

Context: GitHub, nowadays the most popular social coding platform, has become the
reference for mining Open Source repositories, a growing research trend aiming at learning …

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core and has provoked an overnight
exodus of developers who normally worked in an office setting to working from home. The …

The development of AI applications is a multidisciplinary effort, involving multiple roles
collaborating with the AI developers, an umbrella term we use to include data scientists and …

A variety of research methods and techniques are available to SE researchers, and while
several overviews exist, there is consistency neither in the research methods covered nor in …

Background. The increasing reliance on applications with machine learning (ML)
components calls for mature engineering techniques that ensure these are built in a robust …

Bots are used to support different software development activities, from automating repetitive
tasks to bridging knowledge and communication gaps in software teams. We anticipate the …

What is a good workday for a software developer? What is a typical workday? We seek to
answer these two questions to learn how to make good days typical. Concretely, answering …

Software bots, which are widely adopted by Open Source Software (OSS) projects, support
developers on several activities, including code review. However, as with any new …

IT department culture has been widely recognized as an important factor that influences the
adoption of agile practices. Yet, the research pertaining to the relationship between IT …