The effects of neuroticism on pair programming: An empirical study in the higher education context

ESEM 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

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

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

conscientiousness; empirical investigation; five factor model; formal experiment; higher education; pair programming; personality type

Indexed keywords

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; FIVE-FACTOR MODEL; FORMAL EXPERIMENTS; HIGHER EDUCATION; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; PERSONALITY TYPES;

EDUCATION COMPUTING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78149252732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1852786.1852816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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