Fathoming Software Evangelists with the D-Index

Author

Borreguero, Ferran ; Di Nitto, Elisabetta ; Stebliuk, Dmitrii ; Tamburri, Damian A. ; Chengyu Zheng

Author_Institution

Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

18-18 May 2015

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

88

Abstract

The increased importance represented by open-source and crowd-sourced software developers and software development in general, inspired us to consider the following dilemma: can we "compute" virtuous software developers? The D-Index is our preliminary attempt. Essentially, the D-Index meaningfully equates several indicators for the virtues of a developer, such as, contributed code, its quality, mentoring in online learning communities, community engagement. Our preliminary evaluation of the index suggests that establishing the virtues for certain developers eases the identification of software "evangelists", key success enablers for software communities.

Keywords

outsourcing; public domain software; software engineering; D-index; community engagement; crowd-sourced software developers; online learning communities; open-source software developers; software communities; software development; software evangelists; software identification; Communities; Indexes; Open source software; Software engineering; Software measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Florence

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CHASE.2015.26

Filename

7166094