Improving developer participation rates in surveys

2013 6th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, CHASE 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 89-92

  Smith, Edward ^a   Loftin, Robert ^b   Murphy Hill, Emerson ^b   Bird, Christian ^c   Zimmermann, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

participation; software developers; surveys

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPER PARTICIPATIONS; HIGH-QUALITY RESEARCH; PARTICIPATION; REAL SOFTWARES; RESPONSE RATE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SURVEY DESIGN;

RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SURVEYING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84886784049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CHASE.2013.6614738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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