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    • Connecting the Dots: Measuring Effectiveness and Affectiveness in Software Systems 

      Ortu, Marco; Destefanis, Giuseppe; Counsell, Steve; Marchesi, Michele; Tonelli, Roberto (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-06-29)
      The summary presented in this paper highlights the results obtained in a four-years project aiming at analyzing the development process of software artifacts from two points of view: Effectiveness and Affectiveness. The ...
    • How diverse is your team? Investigating gender and nationality diversity in GitHub teams 

      Ortu, Marco; Destefanis, Giuseppe; Counsell, Steve; Swift, Stephen; Tonelli, Roberto; Marchesi, Michele (2017-12-20)
      Background Building an effective team of developers is a complex task faced by both software companies and open source communities. The problem of forming a “dream” team involves many variables, including consideration of ...
    • Smart Contracts Software Metrics: a First Study 

      Tonelli, Roberto; Destefanis, Giuseppe; Marchesi, Michele; Ortu, Marco (arXiv, 2018-02-05)
      Smart contracts (SC) are software codes which reside and run over a blockchain. The code can be written in different languages with the common purpose of implementing various kinds of transactions onto the hosting blockchain, ...
    • Software development: Do good manners matter? 

      Destefanis, Giuseppe; Ortu, Marco; Counsell, Steve; Swift, Stephen; Marchesi, Michele; Tonelli, Roberto (2016-07-18)
      A successful software project is the result of a complex process involving, above all, people. Developers are the key factors for the success of a software development process, not merely as executors of tasks, but as ...