IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

The IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) is an archival journal published bimonthly. We are interested in well-defined theoretical results and empirical studies that have potential impact on the construction, analysis, or management of software.

From the January/February 2010 Issue...

Effects of Personality on Pair Programming

By Jo E. Hannay, Erik Arisholm, Harald Engvik, and Dag I.K. Sjøberg

Featured article This paper reports on a study of the impact of the Big Five personality traits on the performance of pair programmers together with the impact of expertise and task complexity. The study involved 196 software professionals in three countries forming 98 pairs. The analysis consisted of a confirmatory part and an exploratory part. The results show that: 1) Our data do not confirm a meta-analysis-based model of the impact of certain personality traits on performance and 2) personality traits, in general, have modest predictive value on pair programming performance compared with expertise, task complexity, and country.

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Editorial—A New Editor-in-Chief and the State of the Journal (Jan-Feb 2010)
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Editorial—Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Software Language Engineering (Nov-Dec 2009)
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