6 papers
How Do Software Professionals Evaluate AI-Generated Code? (Registered Report)
Samuli Määttä, Hera Arif, Burak Turhan +2
Recent advances in generative AI tools have significantly changed how software professionals write, evaluate, and interact with code. Generative AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Ch…
Advancing Evidence-Based Social Sustainability in Software Engineering: A Research Roadmap
Bimpe Ayoola, Anielle Andrade, Ronnie de Souza Santos +1
Social sustainability in software development means creating and maintaining systems that promote pro-social values (e.g., human well-being, equity), both now and in the future. Ho…
Making Software Metrics Useful
Ewan Tempero, Paul Ralph
Most engineers use measurements to make decisions. However, measurements are rarely used for decisions about constructing software products. While many approaches to measuring attr…
Staying or Leaving? How Job Satisfaction, Embeddedness and Antecedents Predict Turnover Intentions of Software Professionals
Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph, Huilian Sophie Qiu +13
Context: Voluntary turnover is common in the software industry, increasing recruitment and onboarding costs and the risk of losing organizational and tacit knowledge. Objective: Th…
The Software Infrastructure Attitude Scale (SIAS): A Questionnaire Instrument for Measuring Professionals' Attitudes Toward Technical and Sociotechnical Infrastructure
Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph, Huilian Sophie Qiu +19
Context: Recent software engineering (SE) research has highlighted the need for sociotechnical research, implying a demand for customized psychometric scales. Objective: We define…
User Personas Improve Social Sustainability by Encouraging Software Developers to Deprioritize Antisocial Features
Bimpe Ayoola, Miikka Kuutila, Rina R. Wehbe +1
Sustainable software development involves creating software in a manner that meets present goals without undermining our ability to meet future goals. In a software engineering con…