An empirical study of the effects of personality in pair programming using the five-factor model

2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 214-225

  Salleh, Norsaremah ^a   Mendes, Emilia ^a   Grundy, John ^a   Burch, Giles St J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT; ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; DESIGN COURSE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FIVE-FACTOR MODEL; FORMAL EXPERIMENTS; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS; PERSONALITY TRAITS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; PUMPING PLANTS; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 72449175816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2009.5315997     Document Type: Conference Paper

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