Understanding how novices are integrated in a team analysing their tool usage

Authors:
Ilenia Fronza;Alberto Sillitti;Giancarlo Succi;Jelena Vlasenko
Affiliations:
Free University of Bolzano, Bozen, Italy;Free University of Bolzano, Bozen, Italy;Free University of Bolzano, Bozen, Italy;Free University of Bolzano, Bozen, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Software and Systems Process
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Novices' activities can be very different from those of experienced developers. The analysis of tool usage can propose early insights on novices integration in the team and also provide a method to compare their activities with experts. In this work we compare novices and experts in terms of tool usage, both in solo and in Pair Programming (PP). At the end of the integration process, novices activities are aligned to experts ones. Data for this study have been collected in an industrial team of 17 developers for a period of 10 months. The usage of AISEMA (Automated In-Process Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis) systems allowed us to have continuous, accurate and low cost measurement for our analysis.