On the Role of Personality Traits in Implementation Tasks: A Preliminary Investigation with Students
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This study investigated the role of personality traits in software implementation tasks among computer science students. Specifically, it examined whether traits like openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism correlated with student developers' productivity and the internal quality of Java programs they implemented. The researchers had 30 CS students complete a personality questionnaire and implement a bowling scorekeeper app in Java. While they found no significant correlations between traits and productivity, some traits like conscientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism did correlate with the quality of the implemented software.
On the Role of Personality Traits in Implementation Tasks: A Preliminary Investigation with Students
- 1. On the Role of Personality Traits in Implementation Tasks: A Preliminary Investigation with Students Simone Romano, Giuseppe Scanniello, and Pancrazio Dionisio
- 2. "software engineering" coined in the late 60s by Margaret Hamilton
- 3. Software engineering definition is still being debated as they struggle to come up with ways to produce software that is cheaper, better, faster.
- 7. Is there a difference between computer and hardware?
- 8. Hardware includes the physical parts of a computer
- 9. So what?
- 10. … peopleware??
- 11. Peopleware refers to one of the three aspects of computer technology—the other two aspects that are: hardware and software
- 12. Peopleware refers to anything that has to do with the role of human beings in the development of a software
- 13. Peopleware is clearly of interest because the human factor in software development is of primary importance
- 14. - The human component is an essential part of design and development - Development is based on creativity and the ingenuity of people - The effectiveness of tools and approaches strongly depends on the human component - Software engineering presents many similarities with social sciences and psychology
- 15. People sometimes struggle to remember that we’re dealing with creatures of logic and emotions, not just ones and zeros
- 16. Software engineering (and development) is essentially a human activity, NOT just a technical matter of technology
- 17. As many software managers can attest, major failures in software projects eventually come down to people. The study of human factors in software engineering will offer different insights and fresh approaches to answering many open questions Diversity of people and ideas are good for our field
- 18. “Because of the complex nature of the programming task, the programmer ’s personality—his individuality and identity—are far more important factors in his success than is usually recognized.”
- 19. “Personality variables play a critical role in determining interaction among programmers and in the work style of individual programmers.”
- 20. Only a few studies on the effect of personality on software engineering tasks The data extracted from 90 studies indicated that pair programming and team building were among the most recurring research topics The influence of developers’ personality on individual performance less studied
- 21. - Five-Factor Model - Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - Keirsey Temperament Sorter
- 22. Five-Factor Model or Big Five Personality Model
- 23. Analyze personality traits (i.e., openness, conscientious- ness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) for the purpose of studying their correlation with respect to developers’ productivity and the internal quality of developed programs from the point of view of researchers and practitioners in the context of undergraduate students in CS and implementation tasks in Java.
- 24. RQ1: Are personality traits correlated with the productivity of developers when implementing Java programs? RQ2: Are personality traits correlated with the internal quality of Java programs developers implement?
- 25. • Participants: 30 (last-year) bachelor students in Computer Science @UniBas • IPIP-NEO-120 questionnaire to measure personality traits • Bowling Score Keeper
- 27. We could not show that personality traits are significantly correlated with the productivity of developers when implementing Java programs
- 28. Some personality traits (i.e., conscientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism) are significantly correlated with software quality