Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
8-2015
Abstract
Brazil is an emerging economy with many IT initiatives from public and private sectors. To evaluate the progress of such initiatives, we study the geographical distribution of software developers in Brazil, in particular which of the Brazilian states succeed the most in attracting and nurturing them. We compare the prestige of developers with socio-economic data and find that (i) prestigious developers tend to be located in the most economically developed regions of Brazil, (ii) they are likely to follow others in the same state they are located in, (iii) they are likely to follow other prestigious developers, and (iv) they tend to follow more people. We discuss the implications of those findings for the development of the Brazilian software industry.
Keywords
Collaborative software development, software engineering, social network analysis, Brazil
Discipline
Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
Journal of Internet Services and Applications
Volume
6
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
12
ISSN
1867-4828
Identifier
10.1186/s13174-015-0032-6
Publisher
Brazilian Computing Society
Citation
FIGUEIRA FILHO, Fernando; PERIN, Marcelo Gattermann; TREUDE, Christoph; MARCZAK, Sabrina; MELO, Leandro de Almeida; MARQUES DA SILVA, Igor; and BIBIANO DOS SANTOS, Lucas.
A study on the geographical distribution of Brazil’s prestigious software developers. (2015). Journal of Internet Services and Applications. 6, (1), 1-12.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8842
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Authors-CC-BY
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13174-015-0032-6