Contribution-based firing of developers?
Additional information
Authors
Orrei V.,
Raglianti M.,
Nagy C.,
Lanza M.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2023
Language
English
Abstract
There has been some recent clamor about the developer layoff and turnover policies enacted by high-profile corporate executives. Precisely defining the contributions in software development has always been a thorny issue, as it is difficult to establish a developer’s “performance” without recurring to guesswork, due to how software development works and how Git persists history. Taking inspiration from a seemingly informal notion, the pony factor, we present an approach to identify the key developers in a software project. We present an analysis of 1,011 GitHub repositories, providing fact-based reflections on development contributions.
Keywords
Contribution, Pony factor, Developer performance, Mining
Conference proceedings
Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023)
Pages (or article number)
2062–2066
Diffusion
License
License undefined
Visibility
Public
Status open access
Green
