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Challenges and future research direction for microtask programming in industry

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Microtask programming [4] is a solution to promote distributed development in industry. The key idea of microtask programming is to reduce face-to-face communication across developers by splitting the development task of software into independent microtasks. Such microtasks can be completed by crowd workers who work remotely and at their preferable time such as early morning. Dedicated developers who have the responsibility for the progress of development split the task into microtasks, and distribute them to crowd workers. Hence, microtask programming has these two actors. Our research team reported that microtask programming has potential benefits such as the fluidity of project assignments in industrial companies [4]. However, we suppose it still has challenges. In addition, it is still unclear what are future research direction to support both actors in microtask programming, though our research team has conducted three studies for microtask programming so far [2--4].

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Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna L. Butler, Brian Houck, and Nachiappan Nagappan. [n.d.]. A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., Article 27 ([n. d.]), 37 pages. accepted, to appear.
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Shinobu Saito and Yukako Iimura. 2020. Hybrid Sourcing: Novel Combination of Crowdsourcing and Inner-Sourcing for Software Developments. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE). ACM, 81--85.
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Shinobu Saito and Yukako Iimura. 2021. Toward Understanding of Employee Motivation for Software InnerSourcing : Industrial Experience Report. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM Joint 15th International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP) and 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE). IEEE/ACM, 33--38.
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Shinobu Saito, Yukako Iimura, Emad Aghayi, and Thomas D. LaToza. 2020. Can Microtask Programming Work in Industry?. In Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE). ACM, 1263--1273.

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  • (2023)Towards Better Online Communication for Future Software Development in Industry2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00250(1619-1624)Online publication date: Jun-2023

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MSR '22: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories
May 2022
815 pages
ISBN:9781450393034
DOI:10.1145/3524842
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  • (2023)Towards Better Online Communication for Future Software Development in Industry2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00250(1619-1624)Online publication date: Jun-2023

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