On developers' personality in large-scale distributed projects
Fabio Calefato, Giuseppe Iaffaldano, Filippo Lanubile, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2018
Large-scale distributed projects are typically the results of collective efforts performed by multiple developers, each one having a different personality. The study of developers' personalities has the potential of explaining their' behavior in various contexts. For example, the propensity to trust others, a critical factor to the success of global software engineering - has been found to influence positively the result of code reviews in distributed projects.