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Paving the Way for Mature Secondary Research: The Seven Types of Literature Review
Paul Ralph, Sebastian Baltes
Confusion over different kinds of secondary research, and their divergent purposes, is undermining the effectiveness and usefulness of secondary studies in software engineering. Th…
Personality Traits in Game Development
Miriam Sturdee, Matthew Ivory, David Ellis +2
Existing work on personality traits in software development excludes game developers as a discrete group. Whilst games are software, game development has unique considerations, so…
Empirical Standards for Repository Mining
Preetha Chatterjee, Tushar Sharma, Paul Ralph
The purpose of scholarly peer review is to evaluate the quality of scientific manuscripts. However, study after study demonstrates that peer review neither effectively nor reliably…
Practices to Improve Teamwork in Software Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethnographic Study
Ronnie E. de Souza Santos, Paul Ralph
Context. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, software professionals had to abruptly shift to ostensibly temporary home offices, which affected teamwork in several ways. Goal. This study…
A Grounded Theory of Coordination in Remote-First and Hybrid Software Teams
Ronnie E. de Souza Santos, Paul Ralph
While the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on software professionals and organizations are difficult to predict, it seems likely that working from home, remote-first team…
Social Science Theories in Software Engineering Research
Tobias Lorey, Paul Ralph, Michael Felderer
As software engineering research becomes more concerned with the psychological, sociological and managerial aspects of software development, relevant theories from reference discip…
What Makes Effective Leadership in Agile Software Development Teams?
Lucas Gren, Paul Ralph
Effective leadership is one of the key drivers of business and project success, and one of the most active areas of management research. But how does leadership work in agile softw…