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 …

Women are underrepresented in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, as a result of which,
not only do women lose career and skill development opportunities, but the projects …

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 …

Organizations are increasingly adopting Agile frameworks for their internal software
development. Cost reduction, rapid deployment, requirements and mental model alignment …

While lots of research has explored how to prevent maintainers from abandoning the open-
source projects that serve as our digital infras-tructure, there are very few insights on …

Background: Evolution of open source projects frequently depends on a small number of
core developers. The loss of such core developers might be detrimental for projects and …

Established contributors are the backbone of many free/libre open source software (FLOSS)
projects. Previous research has shown that it is critically important for projects to retain …

There is a growing body of gender studies in software engineering to understand diversity
and inclusion issues, as diversity is recognized to be a key issue to healthy teams and …