We define perceived diversity as the diversity factors that individuals are born with.
Perceived diversity in Software Engineering has been recognized as a high-value team …

AI code assistants have emerged as powerful tools that can aid in the software development
life-cycle and can improve developer productivity. Unfortunately, such assistants have also …

The gender gap is a significant concern facing the software industry as the development
becomes more geographically distributed. Widely shared reports indicate that gender …

The growing literature on affect among software developers mostly reports on the linkage
between happiness, software quality, and developer productivity. Understanding happiness …

This special issue of IEEE Software focuses on diversity and inclusion in software
development, presenting research results and best practices for making the field equitable …

Online toxicity is ubiquitous across the internet and its negative impact on the people and
that online communities that it effects has been well documented. However, toxicity …

As social as software engineers are, there is a known and established gender imbalance in
our community structures, regardless of their open-or closed-source nature. To shed light on …

Sustained participation by contributors in opensource software is critical to the survival of
open-source projects and can provide career advancement benefits to individual …

Research has revealed that significant barriers exist when entering Open-Source Software
(OSS) communities and that women disproportionately experience such barriers. However …

As researchers today, we are witnessing a fundamental change in our technologically-
enabled world due to the advent and diffusion of highly disruptive technologies such as …