Effects of personality on pair programming

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-80

  Hannay, Jo E ^a,b   Arisholm, Erik ^a,b   Engvik, Harald ^b   Sjoberg, Dag I K ^b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Big Five; Expertise; Pair programming; Performance.; Personality; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

BIG FIVE; CAREER COUNSELING; JOB PERFORMANCE; META-ANALYSIS; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; PERSONALITY TESTS; PERSONALITY TRAITS; PREDICTIVE VALUES; PROGRAMMING SKILLS; TASK COMPLEXITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 76749129677     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2009.41     Document Type: Article

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