A qualitative study on project landscapes

Authors:
Barthelemy Dagenais;Harold Ossher;Rachel K. E. Bellamy;Martin P. Robillard;Jacqueline P. de Vries
Affiliations:
School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA;School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
Venue:
CHASE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects on Software Engineering
Year:
2009

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Abstract

When developers join a project, they find themselves in a new project landscape and must orient themselves quickly. To investigate the nature of this project landscape, and how we could help newcomers orient themselves, we have started an exploratory study using grounded theory. We primarily collect our data by interviewing experienced developers who recently joined ongoing projects. We are already seeing some patterns emerge. For example, it seems that newcomers find it more important to be able to experiment with the system early on than to have up-to-date and complete documentation.