Illusions and Perceptions of Transparency in Software Engineering

We proposed a definition of transparency in software development to improve communication among stakeholders. The notion of transparency is important, because it enables stakeholders to identify and understand the information exchanged during communication. We designed a survey to gather evidence to support or refute our beliefs about transparency in software development. We discovered a superiority bias in our respondents when answering questions regarding communication problems. In this paper, we present our survey design and preliminary results of our survey.