A Systematic Mapping Study of Diversity in Software Engineering: A Perspective from the Agile Methodologies
1. Karina Kohl Silveira, Rafael Prikladnicki
School of Technology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
karina.kohl@edu.pucrs.br, rafael.prikladnicki@pucrs.br
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Estetrabalho foiparcialmente financiado pelaFAPERGS,
atravsdo projeto17/2551-0001/205-4.Thisproject ispartially
fundedbyFAPERGS,project17/2551-0001/205-4.
ASystematicMappingStudyofDiversityin
SoftwareEngineering: APerspectivefromthe
AgileMethodologies
12TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COOPERATIVE AND HUMAN ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
RQ.1. WhatisreportedinSoftware
EngineeringliteratureaboutDiversity?
RQ.2. WhatisreportedinSoftware
EngineeringliteratureaboutDiversityin
AgileMethodologies?
RQ.1
AllthepapersprovideanswerstotheRQ.1 butindifferent
topicsregarding SoftwareEngineering:
• Global Software development/Global Software
Engineering (GSD/GSE):31publications
• Education: 65publications
• CSCW (OSS/Social): 37publications
• Other (Human-Computer Interaction, Teams
Management, Quality, Research): 99publications
Sometopicsmayoverlap,andbesidesthemixedcontent
under”Other”categories,thetopicthatis highlyinterestedin
diversityisEducation
RQ.2
TwelvepapersanswerRQ.2andmostofthemapproach
diversityintermsofgender(specifically, women).Papermay
overlapsubjects:
• Studies thatrelategender diversity and agile
methodologies: 7publications
• LGBTQI(lesbian,gay,bisexual, transgender, queer,
intersex):1publication
• Scrum framework asanenabler to have more efficient,
diverse teams:3 publications]
• HowAgile Methodologies can support better
performances in teams and how agile values can help
to create psychological safety:4publications
• Pair programming:3publications
IDENTITY AND
COGNITIVE
DIVERSITY
Cognitive Diversityasthe
differencesinhowweinterpret,
reasonandsolve,howwethink.
Identity Diversity isdetermined
byaffiliationwithasocial group as
gender,culture,ethnicity,
religion,sexualorientation, etc.
Cognitive diversityislinkedto
better outcomes,andstudies
showthatcognitivediversityis
influencedbyidentitydiversity
(e.g.,gender,race,
etc.)[Page,2007]
SEARCH STRING
(”Software engineer” OR ”Software engineers” OR ”Software
Engineering” OR ”software development” OR ”software
developer”) AND (diversity OR gender OR LGBTQ OR race
OR ethnicity OR ”heterogeneous team”)
# PAPERS ABOUT IDENTITY AND
COGNITIVE DIVERSITY