Determining Newcomers Barrier in Software Development
Dilruba Showkat · 2018
Previous studies have closely looked at barriers that newcomer's face in the open source software (OSS) development. In this research, we conducted a mixed method research aimed at finding newcomers barrier in the IT projects. At first, we did a literature review on newcomers barriers in the OSS projects. In the second step, we carried out a survey of 45 developers from the IT industry. Finally, we interviewed 8 developers to further investigate the most stress causing barrier. The outcome of this research is a systematically organized list of barriers that newcomers face in the IT projects including the industry itself. We reported newly discovered barriers (27) not listed in OSS barrier model and added social barrier separately. Finally, we listed recommendations from the developers which deserves further attention from the research community.