Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

2-2013

Abstract

The multitude of social media channels that programmers can use to participate in software development has given rise to online developer profiles that aggregate activity across many services. Studying members of such developer profile aggregators, we found an ecosystem that revolves around the social programmer. Developers are assessing each other to evaluate whether other developers are interesting, worth following, or worth collaborating with. They are self-conscious about being assessed, and thus manage their public images. They value passion for software development, new technologies, and learning. Some recruiters participate in the ecosystem and use it to find candidates for hiring; other recruiters struggle with the interpretation of signals and issues of trust. This mutual assessment is changing how software engineers collaborate and how they advance their skills

Keywords

Gamification, Motivation, Reputation, Social code sharing, Social media, Software development, Software engineering, Virtual communities

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

CSCW '13: Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work, San Antonio, Texas, USA, February 23-27

First Page

103

Last Page

116

ISBN

9781450313315

Identifier

10.1145/2441776.2441791

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441791

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