Paper Info
Title
Finding Gender-Inclusiveness Software Issues with GenderMag: A Field Investigation.
Abstract
Gender inclusiveness in computing settings is receiving a lot of attention, but one potentially critical factor has mostly been overlooked -- software itself. To help close this gap, we recently created GenderMag, a systematic inspection method to enable software practitioners to evaluate their software for issues of gender-inclusiveness. In this paper, we present the first real-world investigation of software practitioners' ability to identify gender-inclusiveness issues in software they create/maintain using this method. Our investigation was a multiple-case field study of software teams at three major U.S. technology organizations. The results were that, using GenderMag to evaluate software, these software practitioners identified a surprisingly high number of gender-inclusiveness issues: 25% of the software features they evaluated had gender-inclusiveness issues.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2858036.2858274
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
GenderMag, gender, usability, field study
Data science,Personal software process,Software deployment,Software review,Software analytics,Computer science,Software peer review,Human–computer interaction,Software metric,Management science,Software development,Social software engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-3362-7
18
0.88
References 
Authors
34
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Margaret M. Burnett13607262.34
Anicia Peters2767.56
Charles Hill3613.98
Noha Elarief4221.33