CONTEXT: Human resources play a critical role in software project success. However,
people are still the least formalized factor in today's process models. Generally, people are …

Who should test whom? Page 1 T Who Sho Page 2 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM January
2007/Vol. 50, No. 1 67 Illustration by ROBERT NEUBECKER By Sharon McDonald and …

Personality traits influence most, if not all, of the human activities, from those as natural as
the way people walk, talk, dress and write to those most complex as the way they interact …

From a recent field survey with a group of professional pair programmers, it was revealed
that the programmers perceive a partner's personality, cognitive style and communication …

Code review is an important tool regularly employed in information systems development
practice. In this preliminary study we tested employment of code reviewing in educational …

The purpose of this study was to identity the relationship between the temperament of
middle school students, their level of interest and proficiency in technology-related activities …

This study aimed to examine the skill of participants in understanding the functioning of a
piece of Java code by reading it. Their skill at this task was measured via a code …

The performance in computer science area has been researched for decades in both
academia and industry. Generally, various optimization methods and proposed framework …

The formation of software development project teams is carried out, conventionally, in an
empiric manner; however, in this process, multiple factors should be considered. In …

This paper examines reading as done by programmers engaged in software development.
Reading is an activity we feel should be of fundamental interest to studies of programming …