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ICSE 2019
Sat 25 - Fri 31 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
Fri 31 May 2019 14:00 - 14:20 at Centre-Ville - Human Factors Chair(s): Christoph Treude

Coding proficiency is essential to software practitioners. Unfortunately, our understanding on coding proficiency often translates to vague stereotypes, e.g., ``able to write good code''. The lack of specificity hinders employers from measuring a software engineer’s coding proficiency, and software engineers from improving their coding proficiency skills. This raises an important question: what skills matter to improve one’s coding proficiency. To answer this question, we perform an empirical study by surveying 340 software practitioners from 33 countries across 5 continents. We first identify 38 coding proficiency skills grouped into nine categories by interviewing 15 developers from three companies. We then ask our survey respondents to rate the level of importance for these skills, and provide rationales of their ratings. Our study highlights a total of 21 important skills that receive an average rating of 4.0 and above (important and very important), along with rationales given by proponents and dissenters. We discuss implications of our findings to researchers, educators, and practitioners.

Fri 31 May

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14:00 - 15:30
Human FactorsJournal-First Papers / Technical Track / Papers at Centre-Ville
Chair(s): Christoph Treude The University of Adelaide
14:00
20m
Talk
How Practitioners Perceive Coding ProficiencyTechnical TrackIndustry Program
Technical Track
Xin Xia Monash University, Zhiyuan Wan Zhejiang University, Pavneet Singh Kochhar Microsoft, David Lo Singapore Management University
14:20
20m
Talk
Socio-Technical Work-Rate Increase Associates With Changes in Work Patterns in Online ProjectsTechnical TrackIndustry Program
Technical Track
Farhana Sarker , Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University, Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland, Vladimir Filkov University of California at Davis, USA
Pre-print
14:40
20m
Talk
Why Do Episodic Volunteers Stay in FLOSS Communities?Technical Track
Technical Track
Ann Barcomb Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg and Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Klaas-Jan Stol University College Cork and Lero, Ireland, Dirk Riehle , Brian Fitzgerald Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick
Pre-print
15:00
10m
Talk
Uncovering the Periphery: A Qualitative Survey of Episodic Volunteering in Free/Libre and Open Source Software CommunitiesJournal-First
Journal-First Papers
Ann Barcomb Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg and Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Andreas Kaufmann Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Dirk Riehle , Klaas-Jan Stol University College Cork and Lero, Ireland, Brian Fitzgerald Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick
DOI Pre-print
15:10
10m
Talk
Discovering Community Patterns in Open-Source: A Systematic Approach and Its EvaluationJournal-First
Journal-First Papers
Damian Andrew Tamburri TU/e, Fabio Palomba University of Zurich, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Andy Zaidman TU Delft
Pre-print
15:20
10m
Talk
Discussion Period
Papers