Do Developers Discover New Tools On The Toilet?
| Autor: | Andrea Knight, Edward K. Smith, Steve Gross, Andrew Trenk, Matthew Jorde, Ciera Jaspan, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Caitlin Sadowski, Collin Winter |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Toilet
Interview business.industry Simple (abstract algebra) Computer science 020204 information systems 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Software development 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology business Software engineering Diffusion of innovations |
| Zdroj: | ICSE |
| Popis: | Maintaining awareness of useful tools is a substantial challenge for developers. Physical newsletters are a simple technique to inform developers about tools. In this paper, we evaluate such a technique, called Testing on the Toilet, by performing a mixed-methods case study. We first quantitatively evaluate how effective this technique is by applying statistical causal inference over six years of data about tools used by thousands of developers. We then qualitatively contextualize these results by interviewing and surveying 382 developers, from authors to editors to readers. We found that the technique was generally effective at increasing software development tool use, although the increase varied depending on factors such as the breadth of applicability of the tool, the extent to which the tool has reached saturation, and the memorability of the tool name. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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