Diversity in software engineering
Álvaro Menezes, Rafael Prikladnicki · 2018
1 Studies about diversity in Software Engineering (SE) are important to understand the disparity occurring nowadays at information technology workplaces. The goal of this work is to analyze the characteristics of diversity in SE and how to adapt SE practices when we have teams with diversity characteristics. We collected data by conducting a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and semi-structured interviews aiming to identify what impacts of diversity can be observed in software development teams. We found that there are several challenges and barriers encountered in the work environment, and that inclusion and diversity can affect the software development teams positively.