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People Analytics in Software Development

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Abstract

Developers are using more and more different channels and tools to collaborate, and integrations between these tools are becoming more prevalent. In turn, more data about developers’ interactions at work will become available. These developments will likely make People Analytics — using data to show and improve how people collaborate — more accessible and in turn more important for software developers. Even though developer collaboration has been the focus of several research groups and studies, we believe these changes will qualitatively change how some developers work. We provide an introduction to existing work in this field and outline where it could be headed.

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    “individuals engaged in the self-tracking of any kind of biological, physical, behavioral, or environmental information” [55].

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    http://subversion.apache.org.

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    Leif Singer, Margaret-Anne Storey, Alexey Zagalsky & Daniel M. German

  2. Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Norte, Natal, Brazil

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Singer, L., Storey, MA., Figueira Filho, F., Zagalsky, A., German, D.M. (2017). People Analytics in Software Development. In: Cunha, J., Fernandes, J., Lämmel, R., Saraiva, J., Zaytsev, V. (eds) Grand Timely Topics in Software Engineering. GTTSE 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10223. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60074-1_6

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