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developer motivation

Description: Factors that influence software developers’ willingness, interest, and effort in carrying out development work and contributing to projects.
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Motivation of software developers in Open Source projects: an Internet-based survey of contributors to the Linux kernel
2003 · Guido Hertel, Sven Niedner, et al. · Research Policy · 1,263
Understanding the Motivations, Participation, and Performance of Open Source Software Developers: A Longitudinal Study of the Apache Projects
2006 · Jeffrey A. Roberts, Il-Horn Hann, et al. · Management Science · 1,026
Working for Free? Motivations for Participating in Open-Source Projects
2002 · Alexander Hars, Shaosong Ou · International Journal of Electronic Commerce · 955
Motivation, Governance, and the Viability of Hybrid Forms in Open Source Software Development
2006 · Sonali K. Shah · Management Science · 917
Carrots and Rainbows: Motivation and Social Practice in Open Source Software Development1
2012 · Georg von Krogh, Stefan Haefliger, et al. · MIS Quarterly · 699
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
1996 · Steve McConnell · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 611
Working for free? Motivations of participating in open source projects
2005 · A. Hars, Shaosong Ou · Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 502
Toward an understanding of the motivation of open source software developers
2003 · Yunwen Ye, Kouichi Kishida · 411
How do programmers ask and answer questions on the web? (NIER track)
2011 · Christoph Treude, Ohad Barzilay, et al. · Proceedings/Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering · 409
Gamification in software engineering – A systematic mapping
2014 · Oscar Pedreira, Félix García, et al. · Information and Software Technology · 387
Why we refactor? confessions of GitHub contributors
2016 · Danilo Silva, Nikolaos Tsantalis, et al. · ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) · 288
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Modern code review
2018 · Caitlin Sadowski, Emma Söderberg, et al. · International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP) · 280
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Impacts of License Choice and Organizational Sponsorship on User Interest and Development Activity in Open Source Software Projects
2006 · Katherine J. Stewart, Anthony P. Ammeter, et al. · Information Systems Research · 275
Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
2005 · Karl Fogel · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 275
An empirical analysis of open source software developers’ motivations and continuance intentions
2007 · Chorng-Guang Wu, James H. Gerlach, et al. · Information & Management · 249
The Psychological Study of Programming
1981 · B. A. Sheil · ACM Computing Surveys · 239
Supporting reuse by delivering task-relevant and personalized information
2002 · Yunwen Ye, Gerhard Fischer · Proceedings/Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering · 236
Comparing motivations of individual programmers and firms to take part in the open source movement: From community to business
2006 · Andrea Bonaccorsi, Cristina Rossi · Knowledge, technology & policy/Knowledge in society/Knowledge, technology, & policy · 212
Trade-offs in continuous integration: assurance, security, and flexibility
2017 · Michael Hilton, Nicholas Nelson, et al. · ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) · 211
Psychology of Programming
1990 · Elsevier eBooks · 204
A Large-Scale Survey on the Usability of AI Programming Assistants: Successes and Challenges
2024 · Jenny T. Liang, Chenyang Yang, et al. · IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) · 200
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Software complexity measurement
1986 · Joseph P. Kearney, Robert L. Sedlmeyer, et al. · Communications of the ACM · 192
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Crowdsourcing in Software Engineering: Models, Motivations, and Challenges
2015 · Thomas D. LaToza, André van der Hoek · IEEE Software · 147
Community-based production of open-source software: What do we know about the developers who participate?
2008 · Paul A. David, Joseph S. Shapiro · Information Economics and Policy · 138
Motivators of Software Process Improvement: an analysis of practitioners' views
2002 · Nathan Baddoo, Tracy Hall · Journal of Systems and Software · 133
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