Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

2-2022

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is considered as the most crucial global health calamity of the century. It has impacted different business sectors around the world and software development is not an exception. This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on software projects and software development professionals. We conducted a mining software repository study based on 100 GitHub projects developed in Java using ten different metrics. Next, we surveyed 279 software development professionals for better understanding the impact of COVID-19 on daily activities and wellbeing. We identified 12 observations related to productivity, code quality, and wellbeing. Our findings highlight that the impact of COVID-19 is not binary (reduce productivity versus increase productivity) but rather a spectrum. For many of our observations, substantial proportions of respondents have differing opinions from each other. We believe that more research is needed to uncover specific conditions that cause certain outcomes to be more prevalent.

Keywords

COVID-19, Empirical Study, Survey, Mining Software, Repository (MSR)

Discipline

Public Health | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volume

48

Issue

9

First Page

3342

Last Page

3360

ISSN

0098-5589

Identifier

10.1109/TSE.2021.3088759

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2021.3088759

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