6 papers
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…
A Multifaceted View on Discrimination in Software Development Careers
Shalini Chakraborty, Sebastian Baltes
Conversations around diversity and inclusion in software engineering often focus on gender and racial disparities. However, the State of Devs 2025 survey with 8,717 participants re…
Context Engineering for AI Agents in Open-Source Software
Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Matthias Galster, Christoph Treude +1
GenAI-based coding assistants have disrupted software development. The next generation of these tools is agent-based, operating with more autonomy and potentially without human ove…
Lost in Transition: The Struggle of Women Returning to Software Engineering Research after Career Breaks
Shalini Chakraborty, Sebastian Baltes
The IT industry provides supportive pathways such as returnship programs, coding boot camps, and buddy systems for women re-entering their job after a career break. Academia, howev…
On the Need to Rethink Trust in AI Assistants for Software Development: A Critical Review
Sebastian Baltes, Timo Speith, Brenda Chiteri +3
Trust is a fundamental concept in human decision-making and collaboration that has long been studied in philosophy and psychology. However, software engineering (SE) articles often…