Mutual assessment in the social programmer ecosystem: An empirical investigation of developer profile aggregators

• Main Authors: SINGER, Leif, FIGUEIRA FILHO, Fernando, CLEARY, Brendan, TREUDE, Christoph, STOREY, Margaret-Anne, SCHNEIDER, Kurt
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Gamification; Motivation; Reputation; Social code sharing; Social media; Software development; Software engineering; Virtual communities; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8955; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9958/viewcontent/cscw13.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 soci...