Recruiting Software Engineers on Prolific

Russo, Daniel

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2203.14695

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“…The pre-screened followed the same criteria. What was different is the competence screening, where we asked specific To ensure high data quality, we recruited participants from the academic data collection platform Prolific Academic and compensated participants above the US minimum wage (Palan and Schitter 2018;Russo 2022). The survey was run using Qualtrics.…”

Section: Softwarementioning

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Satisfaction and performance of software developers during enforced work from home in the COVID-19 pandemic

Russo

Hanel

Altnickel³

et al. 2023

Empir Software Eng

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Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, the daily lives of software engineers were heavily disrupted as they were abruptly forced to work remotely from home. To better understand and contrast typical working days in this new reality with work in pre-pandemic times, we conducted one exploratory (N = 192) and one confirmatory study (N = 290) with software engineers recruited remotely. Specifically, we build on self-determination theory to evaluate whether and how specific activities are associated with software engineers' satisfaction and productivity. To explore the subject domain, we first ran a two-wave longitudinal study. We found that the time software engineers spent on specific activities (e.g., coding, bugfixing, helping others) while working from home was similar to pre-pandemic times. Also, the amount of time developers spent on each activity was unrelated to their general well-being, perceived productivity, and other variables such as basic needs. Our confirmatory study found that activity-specific variables (e.g., how much autonomy software engineers had during coding) do predict activity satisfaction and productivity but not by activity-independent variables such as general resilience or a good work-life balance. Interestingly, we found that satisfaction and autonomy were significantly higher when software engineers were helping others and lower when they were bugfixing. Finally, we discuss implications for software engineers, management, and researchers. In particular, active company policies to support developers' need for autonomy, relatedness, and competence appear particularly effective in a WFH context.

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Section: Softwarementioning

confidence: 99%

Satisfaction and performance of software developers during enforced work from home in the COVID-19 pandemic

Russo

Hanel

Altnickel³

et al. 2023

Empir Software Eng

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“…These historical sampling strategies raise concerns for generalizablity and and overall appropriateness of sample size. Recently, many researchers use paid platforms or other hosted sampling services and found that many of the same challenges sampling and recruiting appropriate and relevant participants and screen question challenges [10], [11]. Additional recent work aims to shed light on addressing recruitment challenges surrounding sampling, participant screening, and using student software engineers as proxies for full-time software developers [12]- [15].…”

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Under the Bridge: Trolling and the Challenges of Recruiting Software Developers for Empirical Research Studies

Kokinda¹,

Moster²,

Rodeghero³

2023

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Much of software engineering research focuses on tools, algorithms, and optimization of software. Recently, we, as a community, have come to acknowledge that there is a gap in meta-research and addressing the human-factors in software engineering research. Through meta research, we aim to deepen our understanding of online participant recruitment and human-subjects software engineering research. In this paper we motivate the need to consider the unique challenges that human studies pose in software engineering research. We present several challenges faced by our research team in several distinct research studies, how they affected research, and motivate how, as researchers, we can address these challenges. We present results from a pilot study and categorize issues faced into three broad categories including participant recruitment, community engagement, and data poisoning. We further discuss how we can address these challenges and outline the benefits a full-study could provide to the software engineering research community.

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Recruiting Software Engineers on Prolific

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

Satisfaction and performance of software developers during enforced work from home in the COVID-19 pandemic

Satisfaction and performance of software developers during enforced work from home in the COVID-19 pandemic

Under the Bridge: Trolling and the Challenges of Recruiting Software Developers for Empirical Research Studies

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