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A Study of Relationship between Performance, Temperament and Personality of a Software Programmer

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Priya Bhardwaj,

Anu Singh LatherAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 41, Issue 1

Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/2853073.2853089

Published: 22 February 2016 Publication History

Abstract

This paper focuses on finding the relationship between the performance, temperament and personality of a software programmer. The rationale behind conducting this study is to find out if personality influences the performance of software engineering students. We conducted a survey of 66 students pursuing engineering to find out their personality traits and its relationship with their programming abilities. The personality test used was Goldberg's IPIP (International Personality Item Pool) and Keirsey Temperament Sorter. The results showed that IPIP test personality traits of extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and intellect are not significantly correlated with performance of the respondents. However, on temperament dimension it was found that there was a significant correlation between "Guardian" temperament and high performance which indicates that these respondents had sensing and judging type of temperament

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A Study of Relationship between Performance, Temperament and Personality of a Software Programmer
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
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        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
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Reviewer: Alexandre Bergel

Does a programmer's personality impact her or his programming performance__?__ Understanding what drives the quality of software production is the topic of a large effort from the software engineering community. Oddly enough, relating the characteristics of personality to a programming activity is unfortunately little studied. The paper investigates whether personality influences the performance of software engineering students. The authors found that the personality traits of extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and intellect did not significantly play a role in carrying out some programming activities. Another interesting finding is that students having a competitive personality were rated low in their programming skills. Studying the personality of a programmer is rarely considered in software engineering conferences. This paper suggests that a bridge between psychology and software engineering is worth considering and remains largely unexplored. The paper is easy to read for a software engineer; no background in psychology is necessary. Online Computing Reviews Service

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