Human Values in Software Engineering
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The document presents a study examining the prevalence of human values in software engineering publications from 2015 to 2018, highlighting the need for more attention to values like inclusion, diversity, and responsibility. It details a methodology involving the analysis of abstracts from major software engineering conferences and the categorization of papers based on their relevance to these values. Overall, the findings suggest that existing software engineering research does not adequately address important ethical considerations.
Human Values in Software Engineering
- 1. A Study on the Prevalence of Human Values in Software Engineering Publications, 2015 – 2018 Jon Whittle Faculty of IT, Monash University MONASH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @Jon_Whittle_ Harsha Perera, Waqar Hussain, Jon Whittle, Arif Nurwidyantoro, Davoud Mougouei, Rifat Ara Shams, Gillian Oliver
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- 3. Software Engineering now Values & ethics in software engineering functionality, cost, safety, security, privacy Inclusion, diversity, responsibility, transparency, well-being, fairness, respect
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- 5. Does SE research address this?
- 6. Definition of values Analysis of papers • Selection • Map to values definition • Direct/indirect relevance • Raters • >= 2 • disagreements Methodology
- 8. Abstracts from ICSE, FSE, TSE, TOSEM (From 2015 to 2018) Venue 2018 2017 2016 2015 Total ICSE - Main 153 68 101 83 405 ICSE - SEIP 35 30 28 25 118 ICSE - SEIS 11 9 7 9 36 FSE 122 124 143 123 512 TSE 31 61 61 62 215 TOSEM 14 12 16 22 64 Total 366 304 356 324 1350
- 9. ‘ Protecting the environment “…improve the energy efficiency of mobile apps…” Helpfulness “…a portal created to support newcomers to OSS projects…” Example Classifications
- 10. Human Values in SE Research
- 11. Which values?
- 12. Which values?
- 13. ‘ • (top) SE research pays insufficient attention to values • not all SE papers should address values, but how many should? • adapt Schwartz to SE? Conclusions