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ESEC/FSE 2021
Thu 19 - Sat 28 August 2021 Clowdr Platform
Thu 26 Aug 2021 09:20 - 09:25 - Human Aspects—Developers 1 Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik
Thu 26 Aug 2021 21:20 - 21:25 - Human Aspects—Developers 1 Chair(s): Margaret-Anne Storey

Understanding developers’ day-to-day behavior can help answer important research questions, but capturing that behavior at scale can be challenging, particularly when developers use many tools in concert to accomplish their task. In this paper, we describe our experience creating and using InSession, a system that integrates log data from dozens of development tools at Google. The system includes logs from not only the IDE, but also the tools that developers use to email, schedule meetings, ask and answer technical questions, find code examples, build and test their code, explore test and analysis results, and review each others’ code. We use these logs streams to create metrics and validate the accuracy of the metrics through agreement with diary studies. Finally, we show the impact of metrics derived from cross-tool logs by using them to evaluate the benefit of Google’s readability process; this evaluation shows readability is a cost-effective process for Google engineers and provides significant benefits to developer velocity.

Thu 26 Aug

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09:00 - 10:00
Human Aspects—Developers 1Research Papers / Journal First / Industry Papers +12h
Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology
09:00
10m
Paper
Turnover-Induced Knowledge Loss in Practice
Industry Papers
Martin P. Robillard McGill University
DOI
09:10
10m
Paper
Human Values in Software Engineering: Contrasting Case Studies of Practice
Journal First
Waqar Hussain Monash University, Harsha Perera Monash University, Jon Whittle CSIRO's Data61 and Monash University, Arif Nurwidyantoro Monash University, Rashina Hoda Monash University, Rifat Ara Shams Monash University, Gillian Oliver Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
09:20
5m
Paper
Enabling the Study of Software Development Behavior with Cross-Tool Logs
Journal First
Ciera Jaspan Google, Matthew Jorde Google, Inc., Carolyn Egelman Google, Collin Green Google, Ben Holtz Google, Edward Smith Bloomberg LP, Margaret Morrow Hodges Google, Andrea Knight , Liz Kammer Google, Jillian Dicker Google, Caitlin Sadowski Google, James Lin Google, Lan Cheng Google, Mark Canning Google, Emerson Murphy-Hill Google
09:25
5m
Paper
Gender Differences in Public Code Contributions: a 50-year Perspective
Journal First
Stefano Zacchiroli Université de Paris and Inria
09:30
30m
Live Q&A
Q&A (Human Aspects—Developers 1)
Research Papers

21:00 - 22:00
Human Aspects—Developers 1Research Papers / Industry Papers / Journal First
Chair(s): Margaret-Anne Storey University of Victoria
21:00
10m
Paper
Turnover-Induced Knowledge Loss in Practice
Industry Papers
Martin P. Robillard McGill University
DOI
21:10
10m
Paper
Human Values in Software Engineering: Contrasting Case Studies of Practice
Journal First
Waqar Hussain Monash University, Harsha Perera Monash University, Jon Whittle CSIRO's Data61 and Monash University, Arif Nurwidyantoro Monash University, Rashina Hoda Monash University, Rifat Ara Shams Monash University, Gillian Oliver Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
21:20
5m
Paper
Enabling the Study of Software Development Behavior with Cross-Tool Logs
Journal First
Ciera Jaspan Google, Matthew Jorde Google, Inc., Carolyn Egelman Google, Collin Green Google, Ben Holtz Google, Edward Smith Bloomberg LP, Margaret Morrow Hodges Google, Andrea Knight , Liz Kammer Google, Jillian Dicker Google, Caitlin Sadowski Google, James Lin Google, Lan Cheng Google, Mark Canning Google, Emerson Murphy-Hill Google
21:25
5m
Paper
Gender Differences in Public Code Contributions: a 50-year Perspective
Journal First
Stefano Zacchiroli Université de Paris and Inria
21:30
30m
Live Q&A
Q&A (Human Aspects—Developers 1)
Research Papers